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14-letter words containing l, g, e

  • bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms
  • burghley house — an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials
  • burying beetle — a beetle of the genus Necrophorous, which buries the dead bodies of small animals by excavating beneath them, using the corpses as food for themselves and their larvae: family Silphidae
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • business angel — A business angel is a person who gives financial support to a commercial venture and receives a share of any profits from it, but who does not expect to be involved in its management.
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • cabbage looper — the larva of a noctuid moth, Trichoplusia ni, common throughout the U.S. and Canada, that feeds on a wide variety of vegetable crops, especially cabbage and lettuce.
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • calgary redeye — a drink consisting of a mixture of beer and tomato juice.
  • call screening — a facility that plays an announcement and records messages, enabling the person called to decide whether or not to answer the call
  • caloric energy — energy measured in calories
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • camp fire girl — a girl who is a member of Camp Fire, Inc., an organization for girls founded in 1910, and since 1975 also including boys, to promote character-building activities
  • campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
  • canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
  • cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • carriage clock — a portable clock, usually in a rectangular case with a handle on the top, of a type originally used by travellers
  • carrier signal — (communications)   A continuous signal of a single frequency capable of being modulated by a second, data-carrying signal. In radio communication, the two common kinds of modulation are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.
  • carrying place — portage (def 3).
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • cavalry charge — a charge by mounted troops
  • celery cabbage — Chinese cabbage.
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • central region — a former local government region in central Scotland, formed in 1975 from Clackmannanshire, most of Stirlingshire, and parts of Perthshire, West Lothian, Fife, and Kinross-shire; in 1996 it was replaced by the council areas of Stirling, Clackmannanshire, and Falkirk
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
  • changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
  • changelessness — The state or quality of being changeless.
  • characterology — the academic study of character
  • charge-a-plate — charge plate.
  • charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
  • chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
  • chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
  • child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
  • cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
  • cigarette girl — a woman who sells cigars and cigarettes, usually from a tray displaying various brands, to customers in a restaurant or nightclub.
  • cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
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