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14-letter words containing a, f, t, e, r, g

  • gentrification — the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
  • good afternoon — greeting
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
  • grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • great firewall — a system that prevents access to websites deemed undesirable by the government of the People's Republic of China
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • mittag-leffler — Magnus Gösta [mahng-nuhs yœ-stah] /ˈmɑŋ nʌs ˈyœ stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1846–1927, Swedish mathematician.
  • non-fragmented — reduced to fragments.
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
  • penny-farthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
  • rate of growth — the rate at which an economy grows
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • refugee status — the state of being a person who has fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution, esp in a foreign country in the eyes of the law
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
  • self-slaughter — suicide.
  • seyfert galaxy — one of a group of spiral galaxies with compact, bright nuclei having characteristically broad emission lines suggestive of very hot gases in violent motion at the center.
  • soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
  • staff sergeant — U.S. Air Force. a noncommissioned officer ranking below a technical sergeant and above an airman first class.
  • state of grace — grace (def 8d).
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • tenant farming — farming land owned by sb else
  • transfer agent — a person, bank, or trust company officially designated to act for a corporation in executing and recording the transfers of its stock from one legal owner to another.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • unflatteringly — in an unflattering manner
  • unrefrigerated — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
  • wayfaring tree — a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
  • weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
  • welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
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