14-letter words containing c, a, t, g, i, r
- genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
- 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.
- geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
- 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.
- geometric pace — a modern form of a Roman pace, a measure of length taken as 5 feet
- gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
- gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
- glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- go-cart racing — the sport of riding on karts
- 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)
- 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.”.
- grammaticaster — (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
- grammaticizing — Present participle of grammaticize.
- grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
- 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.
- graphic artist — sb who draws, paints, prints, etc.
- graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
- gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
- greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
- greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
- grid capacitor — a capacitor connected in series with the grid.
- group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
- guiana current — an ocean current flowing northwest along the northeast coast of South America.
- guinea current — an ocean current flowing E along the Guinea coast of W Africa.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
- herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
- hierogrammatic — of or relating to a hierogram
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- indoctrinating — Present participle of indoctrinate.
- integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
- intransigeance — intransigence
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
- lattice girder — a trusslike girder having the upper and lower chords connected by latticing.
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- light aircraft — A light aircraft is a small aeroplane that is designed to carry a small number of passengers or a small amount of goods.
- light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
- lithographical — Of or pertaining to lithography.
- logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.