14-letter words containing g, i, l, s
- blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
- 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
- blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
- block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
- blood boosting — a procedure in which an athlete is injected with erythropoietin, his or her own blood, or the blood of a family member prior to competition, purportedly increasing the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity as a result of the addition of red blood cells.
- blood spinning — a medical treatment, a use for which is the healing of sports-related injuries, that involves removing the platelet cells from the patient’s blood sample then injecting them into the injured area in order to speed recovery
- bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
- boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- 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
- british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
- building works — construction projects
- business angel — A business angel is a person who gives financial support to a commercial venture and receives a share of any profits from it, but who does not expect to be involved in its management.
- call screening — a facility that plays an announcement and records messages, enabling the person called to decide whether or not to answer the call
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- carnival glass — a colorful iridescent pressed glassware popular in the U.S. in the early 20th century.
- carrier signal — (communications) A continuous signal of a single frequency capable of being modulated by a second, data-carrying signal. In radio communication, the two common kinds of modulation are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- chicago school — a group of Chicago architects active between c1880 and c1910 and known for major developments in skyscraper design and for experiments in a modern architectural style appropriate especially to business and industrial buildings: two of the best-known members were Louis Sullivan and John Wellborn Root.
- cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
- cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
- civil rightist — a person who actively supports or works for safeguarding or obtaining civil rights.
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- climatologists — Plural form of climatologist.
- climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
- clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- clustergeeking — (jargon) /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
- co-religionist — A person's co-religionists are people who have the same religion.
- coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- cocktail glass — a glass for serving cocktails, typically bell-shaped and having a foot and a stem.
- cognoscibility — capable of being known.
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
- compromisingly — In a compromising manner.
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
- coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
- cosmetological — the art or profession of applying cosmetics.
- cosmetologists — Plural form of cosmetologist.
- cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
- cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cosmologically — In a cosmological way.
- cost of living — The cost of living is the average amount of money that people in a particular place need in order to be able to afford basic food, housing, and clothing.