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14-letter words containing r, h, a, g

  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
  • bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
  • bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
  • bean bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
  • bean-bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
  • bioarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the remains of living things
  • birthing chair — a chair constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • branch manager — a person who manages the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • 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
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • 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
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • bronchorrhagia — hemorrhage from the bronchial tubes.
  • bulgur (wheat) — wheat that has been cooked, dried, and coarsely ground: used to make tabbouleh or, sometimes, pilaf or couscous
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • calligraphical — calligraphic
  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • carriage horse — a horse trained and groomed to draw carriages.
  • carriage house — coach house.
  • cartographical — Pertaining to cartography.
  • cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
  • cavalry charge — a charge by mounted troops
  • champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
  • change ringing — the art of ringing a series of tuned bells of different tones, as those hung in a church tower, according to any of various orderly sequences.
  • change-ringing — the art of bell-ringing in which a set of bells is rung in an established order which is then changed
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • characterizing — Present participle of characterize.
  • characterology — the academic study of character
  • charge account — a business arrangement by which a customer may buy goods or services and pay for them within a specified future period
  • charge carrier — an electron, hole, or ion that transports the electric charge in an electric current
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charge-a-plate — charge plate.
  • charles wrightCharles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
  • chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
  • chinook jargon — a pidgin language containing elements of Native American languages, English, and French: formerly used among fur traders and Indians on the NW coast of North America
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
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