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14-letter words containing s, a, n, g

  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
  • 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 and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
  • blood-and-guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • bounce message — A notification message returned to the sender by a site unable to relay e-mail to the intended recipient or the next link in a bang path. Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled user name or a down relay site. Bounce messages can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly results; see sorcerer's apprentice mode and software laser. The terms "bounce mail" and "barfmail" are also common.
  • bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
  • bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brass farthing — something of little or no value
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
  • breast-beating — public or ostentatious expression of guilt, remorse, or sorrow
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • brewer's grain — an exhausted malt occurring as a by-product of brewing and used as a feedstuff for cattle, pigs, and sheep
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
  • business angel — A business angel is a person who gives financial support to a commercial venture and receives a share of any profits from it, but who does not expect to be involved in its management.
  • by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • call screening — a facility that plays an announcement and records messages, enabling the person called to decide whether or not to answer the call
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • cancer-causing — having the ability to induce the growth of a malignant tumour
  • canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
  • carcinogenesis — the development of cancerous cells from normal ones
  • carnival glass — a colorful iridescent pressed glassware popular in the U.S. in the early 20th century.
  • carrier signal — (communications)   A continuous signal of a single frequency capable of being modulated by a second, data-carrying signal. In radio communication, the two common kinds of modulation are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.
  • casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
  • casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
  • categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
  • changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
  • changelessness — The state or quality of being changeless.
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
  • cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
  • cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
  • circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
  • cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
  • 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.
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