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15-letter words containing l, e, n, g, t

  • bring into line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • british english — the English language as spoken and written in England and as distinguished esp. from American English
  • building permit — a permit for construction work
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • bulldog edition — the early edition of a morning newspaper, chiefly for out-of-town distribution
  • calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
  • call into being — to create
  • capital gearing — the ratio of a company's debt capital to its equity capital
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
  • cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
  • celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
  • 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
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
  • chelating agent — a chemical compound that coordinates with a metal to form a chelate, often used to trap or remove heavy metal ions
  • chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • chilling effect — a discouraging or deterring effect, especially one resulting from a restrictive law or regulation.
  • chinese gelatin — agar (def 1).
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • college station — a city in E central Texas.
  • college student — a student at a university or college
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • compleat angler — a book on fishing (1653) by Izaak Walton.
  • conceptualising — Present participle of conceptualise.
  • conceptualizing — Present participle of conceptualize.
  • concrete jungle — If you refer to a city or area as a concrete jungle, you mean that it has a lot of modern buildings and you think it is ugly or unpleasant to live in.
  • congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
  • conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
  • constable glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century, having a heavy foot, a tall body, and a capacity of 1 quart (0.946 liters).
  • contextualising — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contextualizing — Present participle of contextualize.
  • controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
  • controller gain — In a control loop, the controller gain is the strength of action a controller will take at a particular point below or above the setpoint.
  • correcting lens — a thin lens used to correct spherical aberration introduced by the spherical mirror in certain optical systems
  • counteractingly — In a way that counteracts.
  • counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • counterplotting — Present participle of counterplot.
  • courting couple — a pair of lovers
  • covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
  • creeping myrtle — any of several Eurasian apocynaceous evergreen plants of the genus Vinca, such as V. minor (lesser periwinkle) and V. major (greater periwinkle), having trailing stems and blue flowers
  • critical region — that part of a statistical distribution in which the probability of a given hypothesis is less than the chosen significance level, so that the hypothesis would be rejected
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