14-letter words containing i, g, n, t
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
- bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
- bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
- bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
- bring to light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- bring to terms — to reduce to submission; force to agree
- british guiana — Guyana
- british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- burying beetle — a beetle of the genus Necrophorous, which buries the dead bodies of small animals by excavating beneath them, using the corpses as food for themselves and their larvae: family Silphidae
- business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
- butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
- cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
- campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
- campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
- carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
- carcinogenetic — Of or pertaining to carcinogenesis; forming cancer cells.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- 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
- categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
- categorization — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- 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
- centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
- centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
- characterising — Present participle of characterise.
- characterizing — Present participle of characterize.
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- chauvinist pig — a sexist man
- chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
- chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
- church integer — (theory) A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
- cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
- cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
- circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
- circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
- climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day