14-letter words containing e, a, g, r
- antiaggression — opposing aggressive behaviour
- antiallergenic — not causing an allergic reaction
- anticarcinogen — a chemical that acts against cancer
- antienergistic — resisting applied energy
- antiforeignism — the policy or practice of showing hostility toward foreigners, foreign customs, etc.
- antigovernment — opposed to government
- antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
- approach stage — the stage of landing when a plane is approaching the runway
- approximeeting — the practice of a group of people making indefinite plans to meet and then altering those plans regularly via mobile phones according to changing circumstances
- arable farming — the growing of arable crops
- araguaya-river — a river flowing N from central Brazil to the Tocantins River. about 1100 miles (1770 km) long.
- arc-jet engine — a type of rocket engine using propellant gas heated by an electric arc.
- archaeological — of or relating to archaeology.
- archaeologists — Plural form of archaeologist.
- archaeozoology — the analysis and interpretation of animal remains found at archaeological sites
- archgenethliac — the person most proficient at casting horoscopes
- archipterygium — (anatomy) A primitive fin, like that of Ceratodus.
- argonne forest — a wooded region in NE France: battles, World War I, 1918; World War II, 1944.
- argue the toss — to wrangle or dispute at length
- argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
- argus pheasant — either of two pheasants, Argusianus argus (great argus) or Rheinardia ocellata (crested argus), occurring in SE Asia and Indonesia. The males have very long tails marked with eyelike spots
- armor-piercing — (of bullets, artillery shells, etc.) designed especially for piercing armor.
- arresting gear — any mechanism or device for bringing something to a stop, as an airplane landing on an aircraft carrier.
- arteriographic — relating to arteriography
- asparagus bean — a trailing, long-stemmed Asian vine, Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, of the legume family, having yellow or violet flowers and very long pods.
- asparagus fern — a fernlike species of asparagus, A. plumosus, native to southern Africa
- asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
- astigmatometer — an apparatus for measuring the degree of astigmatism.
- astrogeologist — a person who studies astrogeology
- at close range — If you see or hit something at close range or from close range, you are very close to it when you see it or hit it. If you do something at a range of half a mile, for example, you are half a mile away from it when you do it.
- at loggerheads — If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other.
- auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
- auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
- autobiographer — a person who writes the story of his or her own life
- autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
- autoregressive — (statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results.
- autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
- average clause — a clause in an insurance policy that distributes the insurance among several items, usually in proportion to their value
- babbling error — (networking) An Ethernet node attempting to transmit more than 1518 data bytes - the largest allowed Ethernet packet. This is why the Maximum Transmission Unit for IP traffic on Ethernet is 1500.
- baby-battering — the physical abuse of a baby or young child
- backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
- backing singer — a singer providing a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
- backscattering — the scattering of rays or particles at angles to the original direction of motion of greater than 90°
- bacteriologist — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
- bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
- badger baiting — an illegal sport in which dogs are encouraged to draw a badger out of its burrow and attack it
- bahr el ghazal — a river in SW Sudan, flowing E to contribute to headwaters of the White Nile. About 500 miles (805 km) long.
- balance bridge — a bascule bridge
- balance spring — hairspring.
- ball cartridge — a cartridge containing a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder