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14-letter words containing t, s, i, n, g

  • birthing stool — a stool constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
  • biscuit-firing — the first firing given to pottery, before it is glazed
  • black as night — totally dark
  • blind register — (in the United Kingdom) a list of those who are blind and are therefore entitled to financial and other benefits
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
  • 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.
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • 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
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brass farthing — something of little or no value
  • breast-beating — public or ostentatious expression of guilt, remorse, or sorrow
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
  • bring to terms — to reduce to submission; force to agree
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
  • business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
  • 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.
  • categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
  • cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
  • circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • clustergeeking — (jargon)   /kluh'st*r-gee"king/ (CMU) Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  • co-religionist — A person's co-religionists are people who have the same religion.
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
  • cognoscibility — capable of being known.
  • coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • configurations — Plural form of configuration.
  • conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
  • conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
  • contagiousness — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
  • contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • contiguousness — The state or quality of being contiguous.
  • cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
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