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15-letter words containing l, a, e, g

  • arrivals lounge — a waiting area for people meeting passengers
  • artificial gene — a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.
  • ascending colon — the first portion of the colon, beginning at the cecum in the lower right abdominal cavity and continuing upward along the right posterior abdominal wall to approximately the lower ribs.
  • ascending scale — a scale that is rising in pitch
  • assisted living — Assisted living is a type of housing specially designed for people who need help in their everyday lives, but who do not need specialist nursing care. In assisted living facilities, residents live in independent rooms or apartments, but receive help with day-to-day activities, for example bathing, dressing, preparing meals, and taking their medicines.
  • at arm's length — If you hold something at arm's length, you hold it away from your body with your arm straight.
  • at first glance — If you say that something is true or seems to be true at first glance, you mean that it seems to be true when you first see it or think about it, but that your first impression may be wrong.
  • at right angles — If two things are at right angles, they are situated so that they form an angle of 90° where they touch each other. You can also say that one thing is at right angles to another.
  • auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
  • available light — the natural or usual light on a subject.
  • aviator glasses — sunglasses that look like goggles
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • bacterial ghost — a bacterial cell that is emptied and filled artificially with another substance
  • bacteriological — Of or relating to bacteriology or bacteria.
  • baggage handler — a person who moves baggage onto and off planes at an airport
  • baggage reclaim — the process of passengers' getting back the baggage that they have checked in for a flight
  • balloon barrage — a series of moored balloons, usually strung together and hung with cables, for impeding a low-level attack by enemy aircraft.
  • ballpark figure — approximate number
  • baltic exchange — a group of companies, based in London, which engages in trading activities, esp chartering cargo vessels
  • bangtail muster — a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted
  • bank of england — the central bank of the United Kingdom, which acts as banker to the government and the commercial banks. It is responsible for managing the government's debt and implementing its policy on other monetary matters: established in 1694, nationalized in 1946; in 1997 the government restored the authority to set interest rates to the Bank
  • banqueting hall — a large building or room used for feasts
  • barrage balloon — Barrage balloons are large balloons which are fixed to the ground by strong steel cables. They are used in wartime, when the cables are intended to destroy low-flying enemy aircraft.
  • base technology — (company)   The company which developed and distributes Liana. E-mail: Jack Krupansky <[email protected]> (owner). Address: Base Technology, Attn: Jack Krupansky, 1500 Mass. Ave. NW #114 Washington, DC 2005, USA. 800-786-9505 Telephone: +1 800 876 9505.
  • bat-wing sleeve — formed, shaped, etc., like the wing of a bat.
  • battleship gray — a subdued bluish gray.
  • beach goldenrod — a composite plant, Solidago sempervirens, of eastern and southern North America, having a thick stem and large, branched, one-sided terminal clusters of yellow flowers, flourishing on sea beaches or salt marshes.
  • belgian griffon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a black or reddish-brown and black coat.
  • benzoglyoxaline — benzimidazole.
  • big black river — a river in N central Mississippi, flowing SW to the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. 330 miles (531 km) long.
  • billing machine — a business machine used to itemize and total customer accounts, produce bills, post account records, etc.
  • black guillemot — a common guillemot, Cepphus grylle: its summer plumage is black with white wing patches and its winter plumage white with greyish wings
  • blagoveshchensk — a city and port in E Russia, in Siberia on the Amur River. Pop: 222 000 (2005 est)
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blenheim orange — a type of apple tree bearing gold-coloured apples
  • blue cattle dog — an Australian breed of dog with a bluish coat, developed for herding cattle
  • blue-eyed grass — any of various mainly North American iridaceous marsh plants of the genus Sisyrinchium that have grasslike leaves and small flat starlike blue flowers
  • bluegrass state — Kentucky (used as a nickname).
  • boil-in-the-bag — (of food) able to be boiled in a sealed bag until ready to eat
  • bologna sausage — a large smoked sausage made of seasoned mixed meats
  • boolean algebra — a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole to codify logical operations. It is used in computers
  • branching rules — rules that are used to break down a complex problem into several smaller problems
  • breaking plough — a plough with a long shallow mouldboard for turning virgin land or sod land
  • bronzed grackle — the western subspecies of the American bird, the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula versicolor, having bronzy, iridescent plumage.
  • brunner's gland — any of the glands in the submucosal layer of the duodenum, secreting an alkaline fluid into the small intestine.
  • bug fix release — (programming)   A release which introduces no new features, but which merely aims to fix bugs in previous releases. All too commonly new bugs are introduced at the same time.
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • cabbage lettuce — any of several varieties of lettuce that have roundish flattened heads resembling cabbages
  • calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
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