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15-letter words containing l, t, g

  • assisted living — Assisted living is a type of housing specially designed for people who need help in their everyday lives, but who do not need specialist nursing care. In assisted living facilities, residents live in independent rooms or apartments, but receive help with day-to-day activities, for example bathing, dressing, preparing meals, and taking their medicines.
  • 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.
  • available light — the natural or usual light on a subject.
  • 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.
  • baltic exchange — a group of companies, based in London, which engages in trading activities, esp chartering cargo vessels
  • bangtail muster — a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted
  • banqueting hall — a large building or room used for feasts
  • base technology — (company)   The company which developed and distributes Liana. E-mail: Jack Krupansky <[email protected]> (owner). Address: Base Technology, Attn: Jack Krupansky, 1500 Mass. Ave. NW #114 Washington, DC 2005, USA. 800-786-9505 Telephone: +1 800 876 9505.
  • bat-wing sleeve — formed, shaped, etc., like the wing of a bat.
  • battleship gray — a subdued bluish gray.
  • beef wellington — a lightly roasted beef fillet covered with pâté de foie gras, wrapped in pastry, and then baked
  • belt-tightening — If you need to do some belt-tightening, you must spend less money and manage without things because you have less money than you used to have.
  • bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
  • billings method — a natural method of birth control that involves examining the colour and viscosity of the cervical mucus to discover when ovulation is occurring
  • biopsychologist — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
  • black guillemot — a common guillemot, Cepphus grylle: its summer plumage is black with white wing patches and its winter plumage white with greyish wings
  • 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.
  • blending center — A blending center is a place for mixing fluids, gases, and powders.
  • bloodguiltiness — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • blotch printing — a fabric-printing method in which the ground color is transferred from the cylinder and the motif retains the original hue of the cloth.
  • blue cattle dog — an Australian breed of dog with a bluish coat, developed for herding cattle
  • bluegrass state — Kentucky (used as a nickname).
  • boating holiday — a holiday spent sailing or travelling in a canal boat, cruiser, etc
  • boil-in-the-bag — (of food) able to be boiled in a sealed bag until ready to eat
  • 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
  • butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
  • cabbage lettuce — any of several varieties of lettuce that have roundish flattened heads resembling cabbages
  • calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
  • call into being — to create
  • 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
  • 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.
  • category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
  • cathedral glass — a semitransparent sheet of rolled glass having a decorative pattern.
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