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16-letter words containing g, o, e, t

  • botanical garden — a place where collections of plants and trees are kept for scientific study and exhibition
  • bring sb to heel — If you bring someone to heel, you force them to obey you.
  • bring to bear on — to cause to have an effect on
  • bring to justice — to capture, try, and usually punish (a criminal, an outlaw, etc)
  • building society — In Britain, a building society is a business which will lend you money when you want to buy a house. You can also invest money in a building society, where it will earn interest. Compare savings and loan association.
  • burgundy trefoil — alfalfa.
  • burning question — urgent matter for discussion
  • cabbage palmetto — a tropical American fan palm, Sabal palmetto, with edible leaf buds and leaves used in thatching
  • cabbage root fly — a dipterous fly, Erioischia brassicae, whose larvae feed on the roots and stems of cabbages and other brassicas: family Muscidae (houseflies, etc)
  • cape cod cottage — a rectangular house one or one-and-one-half stories high, with a gable roof
  • cape cod lighter — a device for lighting a fire, as in a fireplace, consisting of a lump of nonflammable material on a metal rod, that is soaked in kerosene or the like and lighted with a match.
  • capsizing moment — the moment of an upsetting couple.
  • carpenter gothic — (sometimes initial capital letters) a style of Victorian Gothic architecture adapted to the resources of contemporary woodworking tools and machinery.
  • casting director — the person in charge of choosing of actors for a production
  • cataractogenesis — The formation of a cataract.
  • category listing — A category listing is a list of different product categories such as menswear, womenswear, and childrenswear.
  • category mistake — a sentence that says of something in one category what can only intelligibly be said of something in another, as when speaking of the mind located in space
  • category planner — A category planner is a person whose job to plan and co-ordinate future inventory and sales volume in one or more product categories.
  • catering college — a further education college where you learn to cook as a profession
  • chanson de geste — one of a genre of Old French epic poems celebrating heroic deeds, the most famous of which is the Chanson de Roland
  • charge to a room — If you charge an item or expense to a room at a hotel, you add it to a guest's final bill so they can pay for it when they check out of the room.
  • chase the dragon — to smoke opium or heroin
  • chattel mortgage — a mortgage on movable personal property
  • checking account — A checking account is a personal bank account which you can take money out of at any time using your cheque book or cash card.
  • checking deposit — a deposit on which cheques may be drawn
  • chequing account — (in Canada) account against which cheques can be drawn
  • choanoflagellate — any flagellate of the genera Monosiga and Proterospongia, having a protoplasmic collar encircling the base of the flagellum.
  • cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
  • choriomeningitis — (medicine) A form of cerebral meningitis associated with inflammation of the choroid plexus.
  • christening robe — a long white dress worn by a baby at his or her christening
  • chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • cigarette holder — A cigarette holder is a narrow tube that you can put a cigarette into in order to hold it while you smoke it.
  • citronella grass — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
  • cladogenetically — By means of cladogenesis.
  • clean technology — techniques used in manufacturing processes that minimize the damage caused to the environment
  • cleaning product — a detergent or other household cleaner
  • clootie dumpling — a boiled suet pudding containing dried fruits
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • cocktail sausage — a small sausage served with drinks
  • cog in the wheel — small part of a large system
  • cogito, ergo sum — I think, therefore I am; the basis of Descartes' philosophy
  • coign of vantage — an advantageous position or stance for observation or action
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • college graduate — a student who has recently graduated from college
  • colonial heights — a town in central Virginia.
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • combining weight — the atomic weight of an atom or radical divided by its valence.
  • come and get it! — the meal is ready!
  • commission agent — a person who sells goods and services for a fee
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