14-letter words containing n, a, g, s
- blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
- blind staggers — the staggers
- blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
- block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
- blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- blood-and-guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
- body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
- bounce message — A notification message returned to the sender by a site unable to relay e-mail to the intended recipient or the next link in a bang path. Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled user name or a down relay site. Bounce messages can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly results; see sorcerer's apprentice mode and software laser. The terms "bounce mail" and "barfmail" are also common.
- bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
- bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- brass farthing — something of little or no value
- braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
- brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
- breast-beating — public or ostentatious expression of guilt, remorse, or sorrow
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
- brewer's grain — an exhausted malt occurring as a by-product of brewing and used as a feedstuff for cattle, pigs, and sheep
- bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
- british guiana — Guyana
- business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
- business angel — A business angel is a person who gives financial support to a commercial venture and receives a share of any profits from it, but who does not expect to be involved in its management.
- by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
- cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
- call screening — a facility that plays an announcement and records messages, enabling the person called to decide whether or not to answer the call
- campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
- cancer-causing — having the ability to induce the growth of a malignant tumour
- canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
- carcinogenesis — the development of cancerous cells from normal ones
- carnival glass — a colorful iridescent pressed glassware popular in the U.S. in the early 20th century.
- carrier signal — (communications) A continuous signal of a single frequency capable of being modulated by a second, data-carrying signal. In radio communication, the two common kinds of modulation are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.
- casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
- casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
- categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
- changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
- changelessness — The state or quality of being changeless.
- 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
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
- cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
- cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
- circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
- cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.