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14-letter words containing t, a, g

  • blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
  • blue straggler — one of a small group of blue stars within a cluster that falls near the main sequence even though other stars of its color have evolved off the main sequence.
  • boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • borrowing rate — the interest rate at which money may be borrowed, esp an official rate set by a central bank
  • botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
  • bottle gentian — closed gentian.
  • bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
  • 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
  • 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.
  • breast-beating — public or ostentatious expression of guilt, remorse, or sorrow
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • 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
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • 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
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • budgetary year — the financial year a budget is drawn up for
  • 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 trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • bulgur (wheat) — wheat that has been cooked, dried, and coarsely ground: used to make tabbouleh or, sometimes, pilaf or couscous
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
  • by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
  • by easy stages — not hurriedly
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • 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.
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
  • cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
  • carcinogenetic — Of or pertaining to carcinogenesis; forming cancer cells.
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • 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 trade — trade from the wealthy part of society
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
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