15-letter words containing e, l, i, g
- 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.
- belgian griffon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a black or reddish-brown and black coat.
- belt-tightening — If you need to do some belt-tightening, you must spend less money and manage without things because you have less money than you used to have.
- benzoglyoxaline — benzimidazole.
- 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.
- billing machine — a business machine used to itemize and total customer accounts, produce bills, post account records, etc.
- billings method — a natural method of birth control that involves examining the colour and viscosity of the cervical mucus to discover when ovulation is occurring
- biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
- 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
- blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
- blending center — A blending center is a place for mixing fluids, gases, and powders.
- blenheim orange — a type of apple tree bearing gold-coloured apples
- bloodguiltiness — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
- boil-in-the-bag — (of food) able to be boiled in a sealed bag until ready to eat
- boiled dressing — a cooked salad dressing thickened with egg yolks and often containing mustard.
- borough-english — (until 1925) a custom in certain English boroughs whereby the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
- branching rules — rules that are used to break down a complex problem into several smaller problems
- breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
- bridge-building — efforts to establish communications and friendly contacts between people in order to make them friends or allies
- bring into line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- british english — the English language as spoken and written in England and as distinguished esp. from American English
- brooklyn bridge — a suspension bridge over the East River, in New York City, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn: built 1867–84. 5989 feet (1825 meters) long.
- bug fix release — (programming) A release which introduces no new features, but which merely aims to fix bugs in previous releases. All too commonly new bugs are introduced at the same time.
- building permit — a permit for construction work
- building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
- building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
- bulldog edition — the early edition of a morning newspaper, chiefly for out-of-town distribution
- call into being — to create
- 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.
- capital gearing — the ratio of a company's debt capital to its equity capital
- categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
- category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
- cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
- celestial globe — a spherical model of the celestial sphere showing the relative positions of stars, constellations, etc
- celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
- central casting — a nominal casting agency that delivers stereotypes to films or, figuratively, to real life situations
- central heating — Central heating is a heating system for buildings. Air or water is heated in one place and travels round a building through pipes and radiators.
- central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
- centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
- channel hopping — (chat) To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board. This term may derive from the TV idiom, "channel surfing".
- channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
- channel-hopping — Channel-hopping means switching quickly between different television channels because you are looking for something interesting to watch.
- channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
- chelating agent — a chemical compound that coordinates with a metal to form a chelate, often used to trap or remove heavy metal ions
- chemical change — Chemistry. a usually irreversible chemical reaction involving the rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance: The formation of rust on iron is a chemical change.
- chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
- child battering — child abuse in the form of battering