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14-letter words containing a, r, g, u, e

  • dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
  • drag your feet — dawdle
  • drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
  • equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
  • foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • garcia marquez — Gabriel [gey-bree-uh l,, gah-bree-el;; Spanish gah-vree-el] /ˈgeɪ bri əl,, ˌgɑ briˈɛl;; Spanish ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1927–2014, Colombian novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1982.
  • garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • gaussian curve — normal curve.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • 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.
  • general public — people in general
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • gerald sussman — (person)   (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
  • get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
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