14-letter words containing g, i, a, t
- biodegradation — to decay and become absorbed by the environment: toys that will biodegrade when they're discarded.
- bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
- birthing chair — a chair constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
- black as night — totally dark
- 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.
- boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
- body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
- borrowing rate — the interest rate at which money may be borrowed, esp an official rate set by a central bank
- botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
- 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
- brass farthing — something of little or no value
- breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
- breast-beating — public or ostentatious expression of guilt, remorse, or sorrow
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
- british guiana — Guyana
- broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
- 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.
- cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
- campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
- campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
- carcinogenetic — Of or pertaining to carcinogenesis; forming cancer cells.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- 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
- carriage trade — trade from the wealthy part of society
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
- 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
- catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
- categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
- categorization — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- 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