15-letter words containing d, a, n, g
- banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
- beach goldenrod — a composite plant, Solidago sempervirens, of eastern and southern North America, having a thick stem and large, branched, one-sided terminal clusters of yellow flowers, flourishing on sea beaches or salt marshes.
- bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
- beta-adrenergic — pertaining to or involving beta receptors
- big sandy creek — a river in central Colorado, flowing NE and SE to the Arkansas River near Lamar: site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. 200 miles (322 km) long.
- blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
- blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
- boarding school — A boarding school is a school which some or all of the pupils live in during the school term. Compare day school.
- boating holiday — a holiday spent sailing or travelling in a canal boat, cruiser, etc
- body toning bar — a weighted exercise bar made of steel encased in a layer of foam, used for toning and strength training.
- branch and hang — (humour) (BRH) Originally a mythical instruction for the IBM 1130 at Indiana University. Later some real examples were discovered. The Texas Instruments TI-980 allowed all addressing modes with all instructions, including Store Immediate Extended (stores the value into the extension word of the instruction) and Branch and Link Immediate (makes a subroutine call to the same instruction -- Branch and Hang). Compare HCF.
- breeding season — the time of year during which animals breed
- bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
- bronzed grackle — the western subspecies of the American bird, the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula versicolor, having bronzy, iridescent plumage.
- brunner's gland — any of the glands in the submucosal layer of the duodenum, secreting an alkaline fluid into the small intestine.
- building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
- butter-and-eggs — any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
- cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
- call forwarding — a telephone service that allows incoming calls to be transferred automatically to another number or extension
- calvin coolidge — Calvin, 1872–1933, 30th president of the U.S. 1923–29.
- canadian legion — a national social club for veterans of the Canadian armed services.
- carding machine — card2 (defs 1, 2).
- castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
- cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
- centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
- chicken-and-egg — of or relating to a paradoxical situation, question, etc. involving two factors, each of which in turn causes or leads to the other
- child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
- child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
- chop and change — When people chop and change, they keep changing their minds about what to do or how to act.
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- code management — source code management
- cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
- colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
- compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
- congealed salad — a molded gelatin salad containing chopped fruit or vegetables.
- connected graph — (mathematics) A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
- contadora group — a group of four Latin American nations, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela, formed in January, 1983, to help solve the problems of the region.
- contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
- cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
- credit standing — reputation for discharging financial obligations
- criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
- cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling