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15-letter words containing n, e, g, o

  • breeding ground — If you refer to a situation or place as a breeding ground for something bad such as crime, you mean that this thing can easily develop in that situation or place.
  • breeding season — the time of year during which animals breed
  • 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.
  • bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
  • bronzed grackle — the western subspecies of the American bird, the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula versicolor, having bronzy, iridescent plumage.
  • bronzing powder — the powder used in bronzing, consisting of alloys of bronze or brass
  • brooklyn bridge — a suspension bridge over the East River, in New York City, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn: built 1867–84. 5989 feet (1825 meters) long.
  • building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
  • bulldog edition — the early edition of a morning newspaper, chiefly for out-of-town distribution
  • button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • call into being — to create
  • calvin coolidge — Calvin, 1872–1933, 30th president of the U.S. 1923–29.
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • canadian legion — a national social club for veterans of the Canadian armed services.
  • carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
  • 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.
  • categorisations — Plural form of categorisation.
  • categorizations — Plural form of categorization.
  • celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
  • 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.
  • change of heart — a profound change of outlook, opinion, etc
  • change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
  • channel hopping — (chat)   To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board. This term may derive from the TV idiom, "channel surfing".
  • channel-hopping — Channel-hopping means switching quickly between different television channels because you are looking for something interesting to watch.
  • chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
  • children of god — a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • cholinergically — in a cholinergic manner
  • chop and change — When people chop and change, they keep changing their minds about what to do or how to act.
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • cineangiography — the use of motion-picture recording to trace the passage of dye through blood vessels, for the diagnosis of heart and blood vessel disease
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
  • cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • code management — source code management
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
  • 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 pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
  • 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
  • come to no good — to come to a bad end; end in failure, trouble, etc.
  • come to nothing — plan, idea: fail
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