14-letter words containing e, a, g, l, s
- gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
- galveston plan — commission plan.
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
- garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
- gascoyne-cecil — Robert Arthur Talbot [tawl-buh t] /ˈtɔl bət/ (Show IPA), 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Salisbury (def 1).
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gelatinisation — Alternative spelling of gelatinization.
- 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.
- generalissimos — Plural form of generalissimo.
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
- gerald sussman — (person) (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
- german measles — rubella.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
- girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
- give sb a bell — If you give someone a bell, you telephone them.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- gold medallist — the winner of competition or race, who is awarded a gold medal
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
- 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.
- gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
- gosling, james — James Gosling
- governableness — The state of being governable.
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- granny glasses — round spectacles
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- gray sea eagle — a grayish-brown sea eagle, Haliaetus albicilla, of the Old World and Greenland, having a white tail.
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
- gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
- highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
- highland games — a meeting in which competitions in sport, piping, and dancing are held: originating in the Highlands of Scotland
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- in high places — People in high places are people who have powerful and influential positions in a government, society, or organization.