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14-letter words containing l, g, e

  • cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
  • civil engineer — A civil engineer is a person who plans, designs, and constructs roads, bridges, harbours, and public buildings.
  • civil marriage — a marriage performed by some official other than a clergyman
  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
  • clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
  • class struggle — in Marxism, the constant economic and political struggle held to exist between social classes regarded as exploiting and those regarded as exploited; specif., in capitalist countries, the struggle between capitalists (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat)
  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
  • cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • co-religionist — A person's co-religionists are people who have the same religion.
  • cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • cog locomotive — a locomotive designed for operation on a rack railway.
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
  • collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
  • collecting tin — a tin for donations of money for charity or another particular purpose
  • collectivizing — Present participle of collectivize.
  • colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
  • color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
  • common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
  • complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
  • conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
  • conglomerating — Present participle of conglomerate.
  • conglomeration — A conglomeration of things is a group of many different things, gathered together.
  • conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
  • congregational — of or relating to a congregation
  • congresspeople — congressmen or congresswomen
  • consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
  • consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
  • cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
  • copolymerizing — Present participle of copolymerize.
  • coreligionists — Plural form of coreligionist.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • cosmetological — the art or profession of applying cosmetics.
  • cosmetologists — Plural form of cosmetologist.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
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