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14-letter words containing l, a, g, r

  • armour-plating — The armour-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering which is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
  • astrobiologist — a person who studies astrobiology
  • astrogeologist — a person who studies astrogeology
  • astrolithology — The science of aerolites.
  • astrologically — In an astrological manner.
  • at close range — If you see or hit something at close range or from close range, you are very close to it when you see it or hit it. If you do something at a range of half a mile, for example, you are half a mile away from it when you do it.
  • at loggerheads — If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other.
  • auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
  • author catalog — a catalog whose entries are listed by author, editor, compiler, translator, or other party considered to have responsibility for the creation or assembly of the work specified.
  • autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
  • average clause — a clause in an insurance policy that distributes the insurance among several items, usually in proportion to their value
  • avogadro's law — the principle that equal volumes of all gases contain the same number of molecules at the same temperature and pressure
  • babbling brook — a cook
  • babbling error — (networking)   An Ethernet node attempting to transmit more than 1518 data bytes - the largest allowed Ethernet packet. This is why the Maximum Transmission Unit for IP traffic on Ethernet is 1500.
  • backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
  • bacteriologist — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
  • bahr el ghazal — a river in SW Sudan, flowing E to contribute to headwaters of the White Nile. About 500 miles (805 km) long.
  • balance bridge — a bascule bridge
  • balance spring — hairspring.
  • ball cartridge — a cartridge containing a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder
  • ballot rigging — Ballot rigging is the act of illegally changing the result of an election by producing a false record of the number of votes.
  • banach algebra — (mathematics)   An algebra in which the vector space is a Banach space.
  • bandar lampung — a port in Indonesia, in S Sumatra on the Sunda Strait; formed by merging the cities of Tanjungkarang and Telukbetung, and sometimes still referred to as Tanjungkarang-Telukbetung. Pop: 742 749 (2000)
  • barbecue grill — a grill used in barbecuing
  • barber college — a school for training barbers
  • barnacle goose — a N European goose, Branta leucopsis, that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
  • barong tagalog — (in the Philippines) a man's long-sleeved formal overblouse, made of fine, sheer fabric, often embroidered.
  • bascule bridge — a kind of drawbridge counterweighted so that it can be raised and lowered easily
  • bascule-bridge — a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
  • bateleur eagle — an African crested bird of prey, Terathopius ecaudatus, with a short tail and long wings: subfamily Circaetinae, family Accipitridae (hawks, etc)
  • bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
  • bedraggledness — The state or condition of being bedraggled.
  • beveridge plan — the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.
  • bicycle-racing — the act or sport of riding or traveling by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • bioarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the remains of living things
  • bioregionalism — the conviction that environmental and social policies should be determined by the bioregion rather than economics or politics
  • bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
  • birdcage clock — lantern clock.
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
  • blue straggler — one of a small group of blue stars within a cluster that falls near the main sequence even though other stars of its color have evolved off the main sequence.
  • bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
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