14-letter words containing l, a, g
- asphalt jungle — an expression used to refer to a city environment, which emphasizes its dangerous nature
- asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
- astrobiologist — a person who studies astrobiology
- astrogeologist — a person who studies astrogeology
- astrolithology — The science of aerolites.
- astrologically — In an astrological manner.
- 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.
- at full length — stretched out; completely extended
- at loggerheads — If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other.
- augean stables — the stables, not cleaned for 30 years, where King Augeas kept 3000 oxen. Hercules diverted the River Alpheus through them and cleaned them in a day
- 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.
- augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
- auld lang syne — Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish song about friendship that is traditionally sung as clocks strike midnight on New Year's Eve.
- author catalog — a catalog whose entries are listed by author, editor, compiler, translator, or other party considered to have responsibility for the creation or assembly of the work specified.
- autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
- average clause — a clause in an insurance policy that distributes the insurance among several items, usually in proportion to their value
- avogadro's law — the principle that equal volumes of all gases contain the same number of molecules at the same temperature and pressure
- babbling brook — a cook
- babbling error — (networking) An Ethernet node attempting to transmit more than 1518 data bytes - the largest allowed Ethernet packet. This is why the Maximum Transmission Unit for IP traffic on Ethernet is 1500.
- back catalogue — A musical performer's back catalogue is the music which they recorded and released in the past rather than their latest recordings.
- back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
- backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
- backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
- backing vocals — a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
- bacteriologist — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
- bahr el ghazal — a river in SW Sudan, flowing E to contribute to headwaters of the White Nile. About 500 miles (805 km) long.
- balance bridge — a bascule bridge
- balance spring — hairspring.
- 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.
- balm of gilead — any of several trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora, esp C. opobalsamum of Africa and W Asia, that yield a fragrant oily resin
- balm-of-gilead — any of several plants of the genus Commiphora, especially C. opobalsamum and C. meccanensis, which yield a fragrant oleoresin.
- banach algebra — (mathematics) An algebra in which the vector space is a Banach space.
- bandar lampung — a port in Indonesia, in S Sumatra on the Sunda Strait; formed by merging the cities of Tanjungkarang and Telukbetung, and sometimes still referred to as Tanjungkarang-Telukbetung. Pop: 742 749 (2000)
- barbecue grill — a grill used in barbecuing
- barber college — a school for training barbers
- barnacle goose — a N European goose, Branta leucopsis, that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
- barong tagalog — (in the Philippines) a man's long-sleeved formal overblouse, made of fine, sheer fabric, often embroidered.
- basal ganglion — any of several masses of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere.
- bascule bridge — a kind of drawbridge counterweighted so that it can be raised and lowered easily
- bascule-bridge — a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
- baseball glove — a padded glove with webbing between the thumb and index finger, worn by baseball players
- basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
- bateleur eagle — an African crested bird of prey, Terathopius ecaudatus, with a short tail and long wings: subfamily Circaetinae, family Accipitridae (hawks, etc)
- 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.
- 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.