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

  • 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
  • cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • 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
  • charles wrightCharles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
  • cigarette girl — a woman who sells cigars and cigarettes, usually from a tray displaying various brands, to customers in a restaurant or nightclub.
  • cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
  • circular light — light that is circularly polarized.
  • circumgalactic — (astronomy) Surrounding a galaxy.
  • civil rightist — a person who actively supports or works for safeguarding or obtaining civil rights.
  • civil twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 6° below the horizon
  • 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
  • climatological — the science that deals with the phenomena of climates or climatic conditions.
  • climatologists — Plural form of climatologist.
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • 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.
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • cocktail glass — a glass for serving cocktails, typically bell-shaped and having a foot and a stem.
  • cog locomotive — a locomotive designed for operation on a rack railway.
  • cognoscibility — capable of being known.
  • coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
  • collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
  • collecting tin — a tin for donations of money for charity or another particular purpose
  • collectivizing — Present participle of collectivize.
  • 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
  • contour flying — the technique of flying at a constant altitude of less than 22.8 metres (75 feet) above the ground.
  • cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
  • coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
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