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14-letter words containing a, g, n, t

  • gelatinization — to make gelatinous.
  • gender-neutral — noting or relating to a word or phrase that does not refer to one gender only: Firefighter and flight attendant are gender-neutral terms.
  • gender-variant — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to socially defined male or female gender norms: Don't call him a sissy; he's just a teenager with gender-variant behavior. Are metrosexuals part of the gender-variant community?
  • general strike — a mass strike in all or many trades and industries in a section or in all parts of a country.
  • generalisation — The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
  • generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
  • generating set — a generator
  • generation gap — a lack of communication between one generation and another, especially between young people and their parents, brought about by differences of tastes, values, outlook, etc.
  • generationally — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
  • genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • genre painting — a category of painting in which domestic scenes or incidents from everyday life are depicted
  • gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
  • gentian violet — a dye derived from rosaniline, used in chemistry as an indicator and in medicine as a fungicide, bactericide, anthelmintic, and in the treatment of burns.
  • 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.
  • genuine assets — the tangible and intangible assets that make an organization unique, including things such as exclusive customer relationships, etc
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
  • geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
  • geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
  • germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
  • gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
  • gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
  • get in the way — be an obstacle
  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • get one's goat — any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
  • get one's oats — to have sexual intercourse
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • giant anteater — a large, narrow-bodied anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, having a long, tapering snout and extensile tongue, powerful front claws, and a shaggy gray coat marked with a conspicuous black band.
  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
  • giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
  • gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • git-up-and-git — get-up-and-go.
  • given that sth — If you say given that something is the case, you mean taking that fact into account.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
  • globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • glottalisation — Alternative spelling of glottalization.
  • glottalization — (linguistics) The act or process of constricting or closing the glottis during the production of a speech sound that normally does not involve such constriction.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • go easy on sth — If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • go in the tank — to lose or fail badly or on purpose
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