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15-letter words containing t, a, g

  • beef stroganoff — a dish of thin strips of beef cooked with onions, mushrooms, and seasonings, served in a sour-cream sauce
  • benefits agency — an agency that handles the payment of benefits
  • bergamot orange — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
  • beta-adrenergic — pertaining to or involving beta receptors
  • big bang theory — In astronomy the big bang theory is a theory that suggests that the universe was created as a result of an extremely large explosion.
  • biogasification — the conversion of organic matter into biogas.
  • biostratigraphy — the examination of the ages of rock strata by using fossils
  • bipartite graph — complete graph
  • birch partridge — ruffed grouse
  • bitmapped image — a computer image that is held in memory as a series of colored dots in a grid, each dot represented by one or more bits.
  • black guillemot — a common guillemot, Cepphus grylle: its summer plumage is black with white wing patches and its winter plumage white with greyish wings
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blue cattle dog — an Australian breed of dog with a bluish coat, developed for herding cattle
  • bluegrass state — Kentucky (used as a nickname).
  • boating holiday — a holiday spent sailing or travelling in a canal boat, cruiser, etc
  • body toning bar — a weighted exercise bar made of steel encased in a layer of foam, used for toning and strength training.
  • boil-in-the-bag — (of food) able to be boiled in a sealed bag until ready to eat
  • boston marriage — (especially in 19th-century New England) an intimate friendship between two women often maintaining a household together.
  • bragging rights — notional privileges that are gained by defeating a close rival
  • branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
  • break-out group — a group of people who detach themselves from a larger group or meeting in order to hold separate discussions
  • breaking strain — the amount of strain that, if applied to a particular material, will cause it to break
  • breathing space — A breathing space is a short period of time between two activities in which you can recover from the first activity and prepare for the second one.
  • brights-disease — a disease characterized by albuminuria and heightened blood pressure.
  • bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • butter-and-eggs — any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
  • button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
  • cabbage lettuce — any of several varieties of lettuce that have roundish flattened heads resembling cabbages
  • cabinet meeting — a regular meeting of the cabinet
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • cactus geranium — a plant, Pelargonium echinatum, of the geranium family, native to southern Africa, having prickly stipules and white or reddish flowers.
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
  • call into being — to create
  • call-out charge — a set amount charged for a repairman to come to one's house, or to a broken-down vehicle, which is added to the cost of the actual repair
  • campaign button — a disk-shaped pin worn by a supporter of a political candidate, usually bearing the name of the candidate and often a slogan or the candidate's picture.
  • canning factory — a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly where food is sealed in cans or tins to preserve it
  • capital gearing — the ratio of a company's debt capital to its equity capital
  • carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
  • carl xvi gustaf — born 1946, king of Sweden from 1973
  • carriage return — a mechanism on a typewriter that causes the carriage to return to the left side of the paper
  • cartridge brass — brass composed of about 70 percent copper and 30 percent zinc.
  • cartridge paper — an uncoated type of drawing or printing paper, usually made from bleached sulphate wood pulp with an addition of esparto grass
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • catastrophising — Present participle of catastrophise.
  • catastrophizing — Present participle of catastrophize.
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
  • categorisations — Plural form of categorisation.
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