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14-letter words containing g, l, i

  • ballot rigging — Ballot rigging is the act of illegally changing the result of an election by producing a false record of the number of votes.
  • balm of gilead — any of several trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora, esp C. opobalsamum of Africa and W Asia, that yield a fragrant oily resin
  • balm-of-gilead — any of several plants of the genus Commiphora, especially C. opobalsamum and C. meccanensis, which yield a fragrant oleoresin.
  • barbecue grill — a grill used in barbecuing
  • basal ganglion — any of several masses of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere.
  • bascule bridge — a kind of drawbridge counterweighted so that it can be raised and lowered easily
  • bascule-bridge — a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
  • batement light — a compartment of a window with tracery, the bottom of which is formed by the arched head of a compartment or compartments below.
  • bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
  • batting helmet — a rigid plastic cap with a sidepiece extending down over the ear, worn for protection while batting
  • battle fatigue — Battle fatigue is a mental condition of anxiety and depression caused by the stress of fighting in a war.
  • batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
  • bead lightning — lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.
  • begging letter — A begging letter is a letter from a person or organization in which they ask you to send some money for a particular purpose.
  • belaying cleat — a cleat used for belaying
  • belgian endive — endive (def 2).
  • belgian-endive — endive (def 2).
  • bellingshausen — Fabian Gottlieb von [fey-bee-uh n-got-leeb von] /ˈfeɪ bi ənˈgɒt lib vɒn/ (Show IPA), (Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshauzen) 1778–1852, Russian naval officer and explorer.
  • benign neglect — If you describe someone's approach to a problem as one of benign neglect, you disapprove of the fact that they are doing nothing and hoping that the problem will solve itself.
  • bernicle goose — barnacle goose
  • beveridge plan — the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.
  • bible-thumping — an evangelist or other person who quotes the Bible frequently, especially as a means of exhortation or rebuke.
  • bicycle-racing — the act or sport of riding or traveling by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
  • big blue river — a river in SE Nebraska, flowing E and SE to the Kansas (Kaw) River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • bill of lading — (in foreign trade) a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
  • bill of rights — A Bill of Rights is a written list of citizens' rights which is usually part of the constitution of a country.
  • binding handle — (networking)   An identifier representing the connection between a client and server. An association between client/server end-points and protocols.
  • bioarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the remains of living things
  • bioclimatology — the study of the effects of climatic conditions on living organisms
  • biogeochemical — of or relating to biogeochemistry
  • biolinguistics — the study of language functions as they relate to or derive from the biological characteristics of an organism.
  • biometeorology — the study of the effect of weather conditions on living organisms
  • bioregionalism — the conviction that environmental and social policies should be determined by the bioregion rather than economics or politics
  • bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
  • birdcage clock — lantern clock.
  • birthing stool — a stool constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
  • black as night — totally dark
  • 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
  • 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.
  • block printing — printing from hand engraved or carved blocks of wood or linoleum
  • 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 grouping — the ascertainment of a person's blood group
  • 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
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