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

  • anchorage dues — money paid so that a ship can anchor somewhere
  • ancient regime — ancien régime.
  • and everything — You say 'and everything' after mentioning a particular thing or list of things to indicate that they are only examples and that other things are also involved.
  • andorra-prolog — (language)  
  • angelic doctor — an epithet of Saint Thomas Aquinas
  • anglo-american — of or relating to relations between England and the United States or their peoples
  • angostura bark — the bitter aromatic bark of certain South American rutaceous trees of the genus Cusparia or Galipea, formerly used medicinally to reduce fever
  • anopisthograph — a manuscript, parchment, or book having writing on only one side of the leaves.
  • anthropography — the study of human geography and variation; ethnography
  • anthropologist — a person who specializes in anthropology
  • anthropophagus — A cannibal, especially in legends or fables.
  • anti-bourgeois — opposed to anyone or anything considered bourgeois
  • anti-neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
  • antiadrenergic — Preventing or counteracting the effects of adrenaline.
  • antiaggression — opposing aggressive behaviour
  • antiallergenic — not causing an allergic reaction
  • anticarcinogen — a chemical that acts against cancer
  • antienergistic — resisting applied energy
  • antiforeignism — the policy or practice of showing hostility toward foreigners, foreign customs, etc.
  • antigovernment — opposed to government
  • antilogarithms — Plural form of antilogarithm.
  • antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
  • apostrophizing — Present participle of apostrophize.
  • approximeeting — the practice of a group of people making indefinite plans to meet and then altering those plans regularly via mobile phones according to changing circumstances
  • arabian nights — Thea collection of ancient tales from Arabia, India, Persia, etc.
  • arable farming — the growing of arable crops
  • arachnological — relating to arachnology
  • arc-jet engine — a type of rocket engine using propellant gas heated by an electric arc.
  • archgenethliac — the person most proficient at casting horoscopes
  • argand diagram — a diagram in which complex numbers are represented by the points in the plane the coordinates of which are respectively the real and imaginary parts of the number, so that the number x + iy is represented by the point (x, y), or by the corresponding vector <x, y>. If the polar coordinates of (x, y) are (r, θ), r is the modulus and θ the argument of x + iy
  • argonne forest — a wooded region in NE France: battles, World War I, 1918; World War II, 1944.
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • argus pheasant — either of two pheasants, Argusianus argus (great argus) or Rheinardia ocellata (crested argus), occurring in SE Asia and Indonesia. The males have very long tails marked with eyelike spots
  • armor-piercing — (of bullets, artillery shells, etc.) designed especially for piercing armor.
  • armour-plating — The armour-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering which is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • arresting gear — any mechanism or device for bringing something to a stop, as an airplane landing on an aircraft carrier.
  • asparagus bean — a trailing, long-stemmed Asian vine, Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, of the legume family, having yellow or violet flowers and very long pods.
  • asparagus fern — a fernlike species of asparagus, A. plumosus, native to southern Africa
  • asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
  • astronavigator — One who performs astronavigation; an astronaut or space pilot.
  • at close range — If you see or hit something at close range or from close range, you are very close to it when you see it or hit it. If you do something at a range of half a mile, for example, you are half a mile away from it when you do it.
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
  • autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
  • autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
  • babbling brook — a cook
  • babbling error — (networking)   An Ethernet node attempting to transmit more than 1518 data bytes - the largest allowed Ethernet packet. This is why the Maximum Transmission Unit for IP traffic on Ethernet is 1500.
  • baby-battering — the physical abuse of a baby or young child
  • backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
  • backing singer — a singer providing a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
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