14-letter words containing t, i, g
- astrogeologist — a person who studies astrogeology
- astrolithology — The science of aerolites.
- astrologically — In an astrological manner.
- astronavigator — One who performs astronavigation; an astronaut or space pilot.
- at first sight — If you say that something seems to have certain characteristics at first sight, you mean that it appears to have the features you describe when you first see it but later it is found to be different.
- attitudinizing — the assumption of an affected attitude
- auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
- augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
- authenticating — to establish as genuine.
- autobiographer — a person who writes the story of his or her own life
- autobiographic — marked by or dealing with one's own experiences or life history; of or in the manner of an autobiography: autobiographical material; an autobiographical novel.
- autoradiograph — a photograph showing the distribution of a radioactive substance in a specimen. The photographic plate is exposed by radiation from the specimen
- autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
- autoregressive — (statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results.
- autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
- autosuggestion — a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs
- aviation badge — wings.
- aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
- baby-battering — the physical abuse of a baby or young child
- backscattering — the scattering of rays or particles at angles to the original direction of motion of greater than 90°
- backscratching — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
- bacteriologist — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
- bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
- badger baiting — an illegal sport in which dogs are encouraged to draw a badger out of its burrow and attack it
- balance weight — a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft
- ball cartridge — a cartridge containing a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder
- ball lightning — a luminous electrically charged ball occasionally seen during electrical storms
- ballot rigging — Ballot rigging is the act of illegally changing the result of an election by producing a false record of the number of votes.
- bamboo turning — turning of spindles and framing members to simulate the jointing of bamboo.
- bang to rights — caught red-handed
- bargain hunter — A bargain hunter is someone who is looking for goods that are value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal.
- basic training — Basic training is the training that someone receives when they first join the armed forces.
- bass guitarist — a player of the bass guitar
- bastard indigo — a bushy shrub, Amorpha fruticosa, of the legume family, native to North America, having elongated clusters of dull purplish or bluish flowers.
- basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
- batement light — a compartment of a window with tracery, the bottom of which is formed by the arched head of a compartment or compartments below.
- bathing beauty — an attractive girl in a swimming costume
- bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
- bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
- batting helmet — a rigid plastic cap with a sidepiece extending down over the ear, worn for protection while batting
- battle fatigue — Battle fatigue is a mental condition of anxiety and depression caused by the stress of fighting in a war.
- batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
- bead lightning — lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.
- beard-stroking — deep thought
- beggar's-ticks — tick trefoil
- begging letter — A begging letter is a letter from a person or organization in which they ask you to send some money for a particular purpose.
- belaying cleat — a cleat used for belaying
- bending moment — the algebraic sum of all the moments to one side of a cross-section of a beam or other structural support
- benign neglect — If you describe someone's approach to a problem as one of benign neglect, you disapprove of the fact that they are doing nothing and hoping that the problem will solve itself.
- beta geminorum — Pollux