15-letter words containing g, r, o, t, e
- beef stroganoff — a dish of thin strips of beef cooked with onions, mushrooms, and seasonings, served in a sour-cream sauce
- bergamot orange — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
- bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
- big bang theory — In astronomy the big bang theory is a theory that suggests that the universe was created as a result of an extremely large explosion.
- biogeochemistry — the science of biological, chemical, and geological aspects of the environment
- blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
- boston marriage — (especially in 19th-century New England) an intimate friendship between two women often maintaining a household together.
- branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
- break-out group — a group of people who detach themselves from a larger group or meeting in order to hold separate discussions
- bring into line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
- button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
- cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
- call-out charge — a set amount charged for a repairman to come to one's house, or to a broken-down vehicle, which is added to the cost of the actual repair
- carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
- categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
- categorisations — Plural form of categorisation.
- categorizations — Plural form of categorization.
- category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
- central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
- centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
- change of heart — a profound change of outlook, opinion, etc
- charles doughty — Charles Montagu [mon-tuh-gyoo] /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/ (Show IPA), 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
- chromatographer — A person skilled in chromatography or who operates a chromatograph.
- 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.
- cluster college — a small residential college affiliated with a university but semi-independent and specializing in one field of study.
- cobble together — If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly.
- cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
- colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- concerto grosso — a composition for an orchestra and a group of soloists, chiefly of the baroque period
- concrete jungle — If you refer to a city or area as a concrete jungle, you mean that it has a lot of modern buildings and you think it is ugly or unpleasant to live in.
- congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
- conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
- connected graph — (mathematics) A graph such that there is a path between any pair of nodes (via zero or more other nodes). Thus if we start from any node and visit all nodes connected to it by a single edge, then all nodes connected to any of them, and so on, then we will eventually have visited every node in the connected graph.
- contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
- controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
- controller gain — In a control loop, the controller gain is the strength of action a controller will take at a particular point below or above the setpoint.
- corporate image — the way an organization is presented to or perceived by its members and the public
- correcting lens — a thin lens used to correct spherical aberration introduced by the spherical mirror in certain optical systems
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- cottage country — any lakeside region where many country cottages are located
- counter-sinking — to enlarge the upper part of (a cavity), especially by chamfering, to receive the cone-shaped head of a screw, bolt, etc.
- counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
- counterargument — A counterargument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.