15-letter words containing g, m
- baggage reclaim — the process of passengers' getting back the baggage that they have checked in for a flight
- bangtail muster — a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted
- barothermograph — an automatic instrument for recording pressure and temperature.
- bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
- bathing machine — a small hut, on wheels so that it could be pulled to the sea, used in the 18th and 19th centuries for bathers to change their clothes
- bathing-machine — a small bathhouse on wheels formerly used as a dressing room and in which bathers could also be transported from the beach to the water.
- bathythermogram — a record made by a bathythermograph.
- battery farming — the activity of using batteries for raising poultry
- beat one's gums — to talk much and idly
- bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
- beginning rhyme — the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words; alliteration, as in The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew.
- bergamot orange — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
- big muddy river — a river in SW Illinois, flowing SW into the Mississippi. About 120 miles (195 km) long.
- billing machine — a business machine used to itemize and total customer accounts, produce bills, post account records, etc.
- billings method — a natural method of birth control that involves examining the colour and viscosity of the cervical mucus to discover when ovulation is occurring
- biogeochemistry — the science of biological, chemical, and geological aspects of the environment
- bitmapped image — a computer image that is held in memory as a series of colored dots in a grid, each dot represented by one or more bits.
- black guillemot — a common guillemot, Cepphus grylle: its summer plumage is black with white wing patches and its winter plumage white with greyish wings
- blenheim orange — a type of apple tree bearing gold-coloured apples
- bombing mission — a major bomb attack on a specific target or series of targets
- bookmaking firm — an organization that accepts bets from gamblers and pays out winnings
- boston marriage — (especially in 19th-century New England) an intimate friendship between two women often maintaining a household together.
- buckinghamshire — a county in SE central England, containing the Vale of Aylesbury and parts of the Chiltern Hills: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Milton Keynes, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Aylesbury. Pop (excluding Milton Keynes): 478 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Milton Keynes): 1568 sq km (605 sq miles)
- building permit — a permit for construction work
- button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
- cabinet meeting — a regular meeting of the cabinet
- cactus geranium — a plant, Pelargonium echinatum, of the geranium family, native to southern Africa, having prickly stipules and white or reddish flowers.
- cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
- calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
- call for margin — a demand made by a stockbroker for partial payment of a client's debt due to decreasing value of the collateral
- campaign button — a disk-shaped pin worn by a supporter of a political candidate, usually bearing the name of the candidate and often a slogan or the candidate's picture.
- campaign ribbon — a distinctively colored ribbon, either on a small, narrow bar or in the form of a strip, representing a military campaign participated in by the wearer.
- campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
- cardiac massage — a rhythmic compressing of the heart, using the hands to force blood through the blood vessels: an emergency medical procedure for treating heart failure
- carding machine — card2 (defs 1, 2).
- champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
- champagne glass — a glass for drinking champagne, either a glass with a wide mouth and a roughly triangular shape or a tall flute
- chaulmoogra oil — a brownish-yellow oil or soft fat expressed from the seeds of a chaulmoogra tree, used formerly in the treatment of leprosy and skin diseases.
- chemical change — Chemistry. a usually irreversible chemical reaction involving the rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance: The formation of rust on iron is a chemical change.
- chromatographer — A person skilled in chromatography or who operates a chromatograph.
- chromatographic — (analytical chemistry) Of or pertaining to chromatography.
- chromoxylograph — a coloured print created from printing with wooden blocks
- cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
- cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
- cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
- cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
- cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
- circumambagious — in a round-about manner
- circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.