14-letter words containing i, t, s, a, g
- autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
- autoregressive — (statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results.
- autosuggestion — a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs
- backscattering — the scattering of rays or particles at angles to the original direction of motion of greater than 90°
- backscratching — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
- bacteriologist — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
- bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
- bang to rights — caught red-handed
- basic training — Basic training is the training that someone receives when they first join the armed forces.
- bass guitarist — a player of the bass guitar
- bastard indigo — a bushy shrub, Amorpha fruticosa, of the legume family, native to North America, having elongated clusters of dull purplish or bluish flowers.
- basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
- bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
- batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
- beard-stroking — deep thought
- beggar's-ticks — tick trefoil
- binding strake — a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.
- bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
- black as night — totally dark
- blind staggers — the staggers
- blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
- body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- brass farthing — something of little or no value
- breast-beating — public or ostentatious expression of guilt, remorse, or sorrow
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
- british guiana — Guyana
- business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
- 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.
- cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
- catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
- categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
- characterising — Present participle of characterise.
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- chauvinist pig — a sexist man
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
- cigarette case — a case of a suitable size and shape to hold cigarettes
- cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
- circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
- climatologists — Plural form of climatologist.
- cloister garth — garth (def 1).
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
- cocktail glass — a glass for serving cocktails, typically bell-shaped and having a foot and a stem.
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator