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15-letter words containing n, a, g

  • brunner's gland — any of the glands in the submucosal layer of the duodenum, secreting an alkaline fluid into the small intestine.
  • buckinghamshire — a county in SE central England, containing the Vale of Aylesbury and parts of the Chiltern Hills: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Milton Keynes, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Aylesbury. Pop (excluding Milton Keynes): 478 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Milton Keynes): 1568 sq km (605 sq miles)
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • butter-and-eggs — any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
  • button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
  • by a long chalk — You can use by a long chalk to add emphasis to something you are saying.
  • cabinet meeting — a regular meeting of the cabinet
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • campaign button — a disk-shaped pin worn by a supporter of a political candidate, usually bearing the name of the candidate and often a slogan or the candidate's picture.
  • campaign ribbon — a distinctively colored ribbon, either on a small, narrow bar or in the form of a strip, representing a military campaign participated in by the wearer.
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • canadian legion — a national social club for veterans of the Canadian armed services.
  • canning factory — a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly where food is sealed in cans or tins to preserve it
  • 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.
  • carding machine — card2 (defs 1, 2).
  • carriage return — a mechanism on a typewriter that causes the carriage to return to the left side of the paper
  • carrying charge — the opportunity cost of unproductive assets, such as goods stored in a warehouse
  • cassini-huygens — a NASA-ESA spacecraft launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons; Cassini entered orbit around the planet in 2004 and released the Huygens probe which landed on Titan in 2005
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • catastrophising — Present participle of catastrophise.
  • catastrophizing — Present participle of catastrophize.
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
  • categorisations — Plural form of categorisation.
  • categorizations — Plural form of categorization.
  • cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
  • celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • change of heart — a profound change of outlook, opinion, etc
  • change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
  • 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.
  • chao k'uang-yin — (Tʾai Tsu) 927–976 a.d, Chinese emperor 960–976: founder of the Sung dynasty.
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