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14-letter words containing g, e, d, i

  • birdcage clock — lantern clock.
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • 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.
  • blessed virgin — the Virgin Mary
  • blind register — (in the United Kingdom) a list of those who are blind and are therefore entitled to financial and other benefits
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • bodice-ripping — A bodice-ripping film or novel is one which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes. You use this word especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • borders region — a former local government region in S Scotland, formed in 1975 from Berwick, Peebles, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and part of Midlothian; replaced in 1996 by Scottish Borders council area
  • botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
  • bottom-feeding — the activities of a bottom feeder.
  • brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • bridge circuit — any of several networks, such as a Wheatstone bridge, consisting of two branches across which a measuring device is connected. The resistance, capacitance, etc, of one component can be determined from the known values of the others when the voltage in each branch is balanced
  • bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
  • bridge passage — bridge1 (def 7).
  • bridge-builder — a person who attempts to connect or reconcile opposing parties
  • brownie guider — the adult leader of a pack of Brownie Guides
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • budget deficit — the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
  • building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
  • campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
  • cape girardeau — a city in SE Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
  • cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • carriage drive — a private road for horse-drawn carriages, often connecting a house with a public road
  • carriage trade — trade from the wealthy part of society
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
  • church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
  • cigarette card — a small picture card, formerly given away with cigarettes, now collected as a hobby
  • cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
  • circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
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