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13-letter words containing e, c, g

  • birectangular — having two right angles.
  • birefringence — the splitting of a light ray, generally by a crystal, into two components that travel at different velocities and are polarized at right angles to each other
  • bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
  • black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
  • black margate — a grayish grunt, Anisotremus surinamensis, of the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil.
  • blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • bone-chilling — extremely cold
  • bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
  • booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
  • boolean logic — (logic)   A logic based on Boolean algebra.
  • boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
  • boroglyceride — any compound containing boric acid and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
  • bullace grape — the thick-skinned musk-scented purple grape produced by this plant: used to make wine
  • cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
  • cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
  • cabinetmaking — the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • cache storage — cache (def 3).
  • cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
  • cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
  • candle grease — the wax which is used in the manufacture of candles
  • candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
  • candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • canonical age — the age specified by canon law when a person becomes eligible to participate in a certain rite or hold a certain office.
  • cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
  • canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
  • carnegie hall — a famous concert hall in New York (opened 1891); endowed by Andrew Carnegie
  • carnegie unit — a standardized unit of measurement for evaluating courses in secondary schools in terms of college entrance requirements, representing one year's study in any subject, that subject having been taught for a minimum of 120 classroom hours to qualify.
  • carnot engine — an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations.
  • carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
  • carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
  • carpetbaggery — the practice of being a carpetbagger
  • carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
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