15-letter words containing l, a, g, r
- artificial gene — a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.
- astrobiologists — Plural form of astrobiologist.
- 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
- autolithography — a lithographic technique by which the artist draws or traces with a brush and pen directly on a stone or plate.
- 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
- bangtail muster — a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted
- 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.
- 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.
- bibliographical — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
- big black river — a river in N central Mississippi, flowing SW to the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. 330 miles (531 km) long.
- biobibliography — a bibliography containing biographical sketches of the authors listed.
- 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-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).
- boarding school — A boarding school is a school which some or all of the pupils live in during the school term. Compare day school.
- 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
- brazilian guava — a Brazilian shrub, Psidium guineense, of the myrtle family, having white-fleshed, greenish-yellow, bitter fruit.
- 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.
- california gull — a large gull, Larus californicus, of the western U.S.
- call for margin — a demand made by a stockbroker for partial payment of a client's debt due to decreasing value of the collateral
- call forwarding — a telephone service that allows incoming calls to be transferred automatically to another number or extension
- 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
- capital gearing — the ratio of a company's debt capital to its equity capital
- carl xvi gustaf — born 1946, king of Sweden from 1973
- categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
- category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
- cathedral glass — a semitransparent sheet of rolled glass having a decorative pattern.
- cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
- central casting — a nominal casting agency that delivers stereotypes to films or, figuratively, to real life situations
- central heating — Central heating is a heating system for buildings. Air or water is heated in one place and travels round a building through pipes and radiators.
- central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked