14-letter words containing p, i, g
- bioprospecting — searching for plant or animal species for use as a source of commercially exploitable products, such as medicinal drugs
- blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
- block printing — printing from hand engraved or carved blocks of wood or linoleum
- block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
- blood grouping — the ascertainment of a person's blood group
- blood spinning — a medical treatment, a use for which is the healing of sports-related injuries, that involves removing the platelet cells from the patient’s blood sample then injecting them into the injured area in order to speed recovery
- blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
- boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
- bodice-ripping — A bodice-ripping film or novel is one which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes. You use this word especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
- bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
- bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
- breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
- bridge passage — bridge1 (def 7).
- briefing paper — a document providing relevant facts and information
- bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
- bungee jumping — If someone goes bungee jumping, they jump from a high place such as a bridge or cliff with a long piece of strong elastic cord tied around their ankle connecting them to the bridge or cliff.
- bungee-jumping — the sport of jumping off a high structure to which one is attached by bungee cords, so that the body springs back just short of hitting the ground or water.
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- calligraphical — calligraphic
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- 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 chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
- campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
- campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
- campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
- cape girardeau — a city in SE Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
- cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
- 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
- carriage piece — carriage (def 7).
- carrier pigeon — any homing pigeon, esp one used for carrying messages
- carrying place — portage (def 3).
- cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
- cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
- chauvinist pig — a sexist man
- cherry-picking — to select with great care: You can cherry-pick your own stereo components.
- chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
- chopping block — a thick wooden board used for chopping vegetables, meat etc on
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- chopping knife — a knife for chopping meat, vegetables etc
- choreographies — Plural form of choreography.
- choreographing — Present participle of choreograph.
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
- cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines