14-letter words containing c, a, l, g, r
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- drop a clanger — If you say that you have dropped a clanger, you mean that you have done or said something stupid or embarrassing.
- egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
- electric organ — a pipe organ operated by electrical means
- electromagnets — Plural form of electromagnet.
- electromyogram — A record or display produced by electromyography.
- electroplating — Coat (a metal object) by electrolytic deposition with chromium, silver, or another metal.
- emergency call — a telephone call to the emergency services made during an emergency
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
- energy balance — An energy balance is a consideration of the energy input, output, and consumption or generation in a process or stage.
- epigrammatical — Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- ergocalciferol — Constituent of vitamin D1 and vitamin D2.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
- excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
- exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- gabriel marcel — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1887–1973, French philosopher, dramatist, and critic.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- garbologically — From the perspective of garbology.
- garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
- garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- general public — people in general
- geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
- geographically — of or relating to geography.
- george calvert — Charles (3rd Baron Baltimore) 1637–1715, English colonial administrator in America: governor (1661–75) and proprietor (1675–89) of Maryland (grandson of George Calvert).
- gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
- glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
- glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- glyceraldehyde — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , that is an intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism and yields glycerol on reduction.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- grammar school — an elementary school.
- grammaticality — the state or quality of being grammatical.
- grammaticalize — to convert (a content word or part of one) into a functor, as in using OE līc, “body,” as a suffix in adjectives and adverbs, such as OE frēondlīc, “friendly.”.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.