15-letter words containing t, r, i, g, e
- bangtail muster — a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted
- bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
- battery farming — the activity of using batteries for raising poultry
- batting average — in baseball, a figure expressing the average batting efficiency of a player or team, figured by dividing the number of base hits by the number of official at-bats
- battleship gray — a subdued bluish gray.
- be raring to go — If you say that you are raring to go, you mean that you are very eager to start doing something.
- beat generation — members of the generation that came to maturity in the 1950s, whose rejection of the social and political systems of the West was expressed through contempt for regular work, possessions, traditional dress, etc, and espousal of anarchism, communal living, drugs, etc
- bedford heights — a town in N Ohio.
- bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
- beta-adrenergic — pertaining to or involving beta receptors
- bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
- 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.
- biogeochemistry — the science of biological, chemical, and geological aspects of the environment
- bipartite graph — complete graph
- birch partridge — ruffed grouse
- birthing center — a medical facility for the labor and childbirth experience in a family-friendly, homelike environment.
- birthing centre — a private maternity hospital
- 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.
- blending center — A blending center is a place for mixing fluids, gases, and powders.
- boston marriage — (especially in 19th-century New England) an intimate friendship between two women often maintaining a household together.
- branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
- 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 into line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- bring the check — If you bring the check in a restaurant, you bring the customer a piece of paper on which the price of their meal is written.
- bring to a head — to bring or be brought to a crisis
- british english — the English language as spoken and written in England and as distinguished esp. from American English
- building permit — a permit for construction work
- building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
- butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
- categorisations — Plural form of categorisation.
- categorizations — Plural form of categorization.
- category killer — a person, product, or business that dominates a particular market
- cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
- centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
- central casting — a nominal casting agency that delivers stereotypes to films or, figuratively, to real life situations
- central heating — Central heating is a heating system for buildings. Air or water is heated in one place and travels round a building through pipes and radiators.
- central locking — a system by which all the doors of a motor vehicle can be locked simultaneously when the driver's door is locked
- centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
- child battering — child abuse in the form of battering