14-letter words containing n, e, g, a, t, o
- bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
- budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
- cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
- cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
- carcinogenetic — Of or pertaining to carcinogenesis; forming cancer cells.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- 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
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
- categorization — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- 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
- centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
- charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
- color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- 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
- conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- containerizing — Present participle of containerize.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cottage garden — an informal style of garden which has beds planted with a great variety of traditional flowers
- cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- cytopathogenic — causing cytopathy
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- data modelling — data model
- de-designation — an act of designating.