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14-letter words containing a, t, e, n, i

  • garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • garrison state — a state in which military matters dominate economic and political life.
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • gelatinisation — Alternative spelling of gelatinization.
  • gelatinization — to make gelatinous.
  • 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
  • gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
  • gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
  • gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
  • get in the way — be an obstacle
  • 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 tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
  • gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • given that sth — If you say given that something is the case, you mean taking that fact into account.
  • go in the tank — to lose or fail badly or on purpose
  • go into detail — elaborate, recount more fully
  • gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
  • grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
  • grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
  • grangerisation — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
  • grangerization — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • grease-stained — stained with grease marks
  • great plantain — a N temperate plant, Plantago major, which has a rosette of broad leaves and a slender spike of small greenish flowers: family Plantaginaceae
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