14-letter words containing g, l, o, t
- basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
- bill of rights — A Bill of Rights is a written list of citizens' rights which is usually part of the constitution of a country.
- bioclimatology — the study of the effects of climatic conditions on living organisms
- 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
- bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
- birthing stool — a stool constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
- 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
- blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- 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-and-guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
- bottle gentian — closed gentian.
- bottle turning — the turning of the legs of chairs, tables, etc., in manufacturing to give certain sections an ornamental, bottlelike form.
- bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
- boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- bring to light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
- broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- 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."
- butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
- by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
- card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
- 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.
- 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
- characterology — the academic study of character
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
- cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
- 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
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- 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.
- color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.