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14-letter words containing a, g, e, o, f

  • foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • free of charge — having no cost
  • gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
  • game of chance — a game in which the outcome is determined by chance rather than by the skill of its players, as roulette.
  • garden of eden — Eden1
  • gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • 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.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • good afternoon — greeting
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • gulf of guinea — a large inlet of the S Atlantic on the W coast of Africa, extending from Cape Palmas, Liberia, to Cape Lopez, Gabon: contains two large bays, the Bight of Bonny and the Bight of Benin, separated by the Niger delta
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
  • kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • man of galilee — Jesus.
  • 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.
  • morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
  • non-fragmented — reduced to fragments.
  • off one's game — playing badly
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • rate of growth — the rate at which an economy grows
  • 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
  • reflexological — of or relating to reflexology
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • 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
  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • sea of galilee — a lake in NE Israel, 209 m (686 ft) below sea level, through which the River Jordan flows. Area: 165 sq km (64 sq miles)
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
  • state of grace — grace (def 8d).
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