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15-letter words containing e, c, i, g

  • baggage reclaim — the process of passengers' getting back the baggage that they have checked in for a flight
  • baltic exchange — a group of companies, based in London, which engages in trading activities, esp chartering cargo vessels
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • bathing machine — a small hut, on wheels so that it could be pulled to the sea, used in the 18th and 19th centuries for bathers to change their clothes
  • bathing-machine — a small bathhouse on wheels formerly used as a dressing room and in which bathers could also be transported from the beach to the water.
  • beginner's luck — the initial good fortune or success commonly supposed to come to a person who has recently taken up a new pursuit, as a sport or game: Catching a large trout the first time you go fishing is simply beginner's luck.
  • benefits agency — an agency that handles the payment of benefits
  • bergius process — a method of hydrogenation formerly used with coal to produce an oil similar to petroleum.
  • beta-adrenergic — pertaining to or involving beta receptors
  • bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
  • big black river — a river in N central Mississippi, flowing SW to the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. 330 miles (531 km) long.
  • 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.
  • big white chief — an important person, boss, or leader
  • billing machine — a business machine used to itemize and total customer accounts, produce bills, post account records, etc.
  • biogeochemistry — the science of biological, chemical, and geological aspects of the environment
  • birch partridge — ruffed grouse
  • birthing center — a medical facility for the labor and childbirth experience in a family-friendly, homelike environment.
  • birthing centre — a private maternity hospital
  • black guillemot — a common guillemot, Cepphus grylle: its summer plumage is black with white wing patches and its winter plumage white with greyish wings
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • blending center — A blending center is a place for mixing fluids, gases, and powders.
  • branching rules — rules that are used to break down a complex problem into several smaller problems
  • branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
  • breathing space — A breathing space is a short period of time between two activities in which you can recover from the first activity and prepare for the second one.
  • bring the check — If you bring the check in a restaurant, you bring the customer a piece of paper on which the price of their meal is written.
  • brush discharge — a slightly luminous electrical discharge between points of high charge density when the charge density is insufficient to cause a spark or around sharp points on a highly charged conductor because of ionization of air molecules in their vicinity
  • buckinghamshire — a county in SE central England, containing the Vale of Aylesbury and parts of the Chiltern Hills: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Milton Keynes, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Aylesbury. Pop (excluding Milton Keynes): 478 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Milton Keynes): 1568 sq km (605 sq miles)
  • cabinet meeting — a regular meeting of the cabinet
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • cactus geranium — a plant, Pelargonium echinatum, of the geranium family, native to southern Africa, having prickly stipules and white or reddish flowers.
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • call into being — to create
  • calvin coolidge — Calvin, 1872–1933, 30th president of the U.S. 1923–29.
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • canadian legion — a national social club for veterans of the Canadian armed services.
  • capital gearing — the ratio of a company's debt capital to its equity capital
  • carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
  • cardiac massage — a rhythmic compressing of the heart, using the hands to force blood through the blood vessels: an emergency medical procedure for treating heart failure
  • carding machine — card2 (defs 1, 2).
  • carriage return — a mechanism on a typewriter that causes the carriage to return to the left side of the paper
  • carrying charge — the opportunity cost of unproductive assets, such as goods stored in a warehouse
  • cartridge brass — brass composed of about 70 percent copper and 30 percent zinc.
  • cartridge paper — an uncoated type of drawing or printing paper, usually made from bleached sulphate wood pulp with an addition of esparto grass
  • cassini-huygens — a NASA-ESA spacecraft launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons; Cassini entered orbit around the planet in 2004 and released the Huygens probe which landed on Titan in 2005
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
  • categorisations — Plural form of categorisation.
  • categorizations — Plural form of categorization.
  • category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
  • cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
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