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14-letter words containing g, a, l, t, i, n

  • bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
  • block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
  • blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
  • bottle gentian — closed gentian.
  • bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • central region — a former local government region in central Scotland, formed in 1975 from Clackmannanshire, most of Stirlingshire, and parts of Perthshire, West Lothian, Fife, and Kinross-shire; in 1996 it was replaced by the council areas of Stirling, Clackmannanshire, and Falkirk
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • conciliatingly — So as to conciliate.
  • conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • conglomerating — Present participle of conglomerate.
  • conglomeration — A conglomeration of things is a group of many different things, gathered together.
  • conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
  • conglutinating — Present participle of conglutinate.
  • conglutination — glued together; adhering.
  • congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulation — the act of congratulating
  • congregational — of or relating to a congregation
  • contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
  • contact flying — flying an airplane in conditions of good visibility so that the course and altitude can be determined by observing points or objects on the ground; VFR
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
  • critical angle — the smallest possible angle of incidence for which light rays are totally reflected at an interface between substances of different refractive index
  • crystal gazing — the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc
  • data modelling — data model
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
  • decentralizing — Present participle of decentralize.
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • delegitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
  • demilitarizing — Present participle of demilitarize.
  • dental hygiene — the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc
  • depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
  • detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
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