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15-letter words containing e, g, a, d

  • 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.
  • birch partridge — ruffed grouse
  • bird of passage — If you refer to someone as a bird of passage, you mean that they are staying in a place for a short time before going to another place.
  • bitmapped image — a computer image that is held in memory as a series of colored dots in a grid, each dot represented by one or more bits.
  • 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.
  • blue cattle dog — an Australian breed of dog with a bluish coat, developed for herding cattle
  • blue-eyed grass — any of various mainly North American iridaceous marsh plants of the genus Sisyrinchium that have grasslike leaves and small flat starlike blue flowers
  • breeding season — the time of year during which animals breed
  • brights-disease — a disease characterized by albuminuria and heightened blood pressure.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • cathedral glass — a semitransparent sheet of rolled glass having a decorative pattern.
  • 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.
  • chagas' disease — a form of trypanosomiasis found in South America, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, characterized by fever and, often, inflammation of the heart muscles
  • charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
  • 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
  • cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
  • cracked gas oil — Cracked gas oil is a gas oil which is formed as one of the products of a gas reaction.
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