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14-letter words containing a, g, l, e, t, s

  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
  • intelligentsia — Intellectuals or highly educated people as a group, especially when regarded as possessing culture and political influence.
  • interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
  • intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
  • intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
  • irregularities — the quality or state of being irregular.
  • jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • legalistically — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
  • legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • 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.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
  • manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
  • manual testing — (testing)   That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
  • maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
  • masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
  • metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
  • metallic glass — glassy alloy.
  • metapsychology — speculative thought dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the limits of psychology as an empirical science.
  • mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
  • neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
  • nielsen rating — an estimate of the total number of viewers for a particular television program, expressed as a percentage of the total number of viewers whose television sets are on at the time and based on a monitoring of the sets of a preselected sample of viewers.
  • nonlegislative — Not of a legislative character; not involved with or related to legislating.
  • notes inégales — (esp in French baroque music) notes written down evenly but executed as if they were divided into pairs of long and short notes
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
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