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15-letter words containing a, l, n, g

  • brunner's gland — any of the glands in the submucosal layer of the duodenum, secreting an alkaline fluid into the small intestine.
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • by a long chalk — You can use by a long chalk to add emphasis to something you are saying.
  • calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
  • california gull — a large gull, Larus californicus, of the western U.S.
  • call for margin — a demand made by a stockbroker for partial payment of a client's debt due to decreasing value of the collateral
  • call forwarding — a telephone service that allows incoming calls to be transferred automatically to another number or extension
  • call into being — to create
  • calvin coolidge — Calvin, 1872–1933, 30th president of the U.S. 1923–29.
  • canadian legion — a national social club for veterans of the Canadian armed services.
  • capital gearing — the ratio of a company's debt capital to its equity capital
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
  • cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
  • celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
  • 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.
  • chain lightning — lightning that zigzags across the sky
  • champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
  • champagne glass — a glass for drinking champagne, either a glass with a wide mouth and a roughly triangular shape or a tall flute
  • channel hopping — (chat)   To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board. This term may derive from the TV idiom, "channel surfing".
  • channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-hopping — Channel-hopping means switching quickly between different television channels because you are looking for something interesting to watch.
  • channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
  • chelating agent — a chemical compound that coordinates with a metal to form a chelate, often used to trap or remove heavy metal ions
  • chemical change — Chemistry. a usually irreversible chemical reaction involving the rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance: The formation of rust on iron is a chemical change.
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • chinese gelatin — agar (def 1).
  • cholangiectasis — Dilation of the bile ducts.
  • cholangiography — radiographic examination of the bile ducts after the introduction into them of a contrast medium
  • cholinergically — in a cholinergic manner
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • chronologically — arranged in the order of time: a chronological list of events.
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
  • cleavage-planes — the act of cleaving or splitting.
  • clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
  • coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
  • cocktail lounge — A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks.
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • college station — a city in E central Texas.
  • colonial siding — siding composed of boards with parallel faces laid horizontally so that the upper overlaps the one below.
  • colour sergeant — a sergeant who carries the regimental, battalion, or national colours, as in a colour guard
  • commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
  • commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
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