14-letter words containing t, o, n, g
- argonne forest — a wooded region in NE France: battles, World War I, 1918; World War II, 1944.
- argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
- armour-plating — The armour-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering which is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- assistance dog — a dog that has been specially trained to live with and accompany a disabled person, carrying out such tasks as prompting them to take medication or assisting them to cross a road
- astronavigator — One who performs astronavigation; an astronaut or space pilot.
- at close range — If you see or hit something at close range or from close range, you are very close to it when you see it or hit it. If you do something at a range of half a mile, for example, you are half a mile away from it when you do it.
- auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
- auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
- autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
- 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.
- 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
- barong tagalog — (in the Philippines) a man's long-sleeved formal overblouse, made of fine, sheer fabric, often embroidered.
- bastard indigo — a bushy shrub, Amorpha fruticosa, of the legume family, native to North America, having elongated clusters of dull purplish or bluish flowers.
- bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
- beard-stroking — deep thought
- bending moment — the algebraic sum of all the moments to one side of a cross-section of a beam or other structural support
- beta geminorum — Pollux
- betting office — a licensed bookmaker's premises not on a racecourse where bets can be placed on horses, teams, and other competitors
- big government — a form of government characterized by high taxation and public spending and centralization of political power
- bight of bonny — a wide bay at the E end of the Gulf of Guinea off the coasts of Nigeria and Cameroon
- biodegradation — to decay and become absorbed by the environment: toys that will biodegrade when they're discarded.
- biolinguistics — the study of language functions as they relate to or derive from the biological characteristics of an organism.
- bioprospecting — searching for plant or animal species for use as a source of commercially exploitable products, such as medicinal drugs
- bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
- birthing stool — a stool constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
- block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
- block printing — printing from hand engraved or carved blocks of wood or linoleum
- blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- blood boosting — a procedure in which an athlete is injected with erythropoietin, his or her own blood, or the blood of a family member prior to competition, purportedly increasing the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity as a result of the addition of red blood cells.
- blood-and-guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- 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
- bobbin turning — turning of furniture legs, stretchers, etc., to resemble a continuous row of bobbins.
- 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.
- bottle turning — the turning of the legs of chairs, tables, etc., in manufacturing to give certain sections an ornamental, bottlelike form.
- bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
- bottom fishing — investing in low-priced shares that show prospects of recovery or in shares that are low-priced because of a general market decline in the hope of making a profit
- bottom-feeding — the activities of a bottom feeder.
- bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- 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.
- breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from