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14-letter words containing e, d, g, r, t

  • gender studies — subject: male and female roles
  • gender-neutral — noting or relating to a word or phrase that does not refer to one gender only: Firefighter and flight attendant are gender-neutral terms.
  • 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?
  • geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
  • gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
  • get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
  • give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
  • glutaraldehyde — a nonflammable liquid, C 5 H 8 O 2 , soluble in water and alcohol, toxic and an irritant, used for tanning leather and as a fixative for samples to be examined under the electron microscope.
  • 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.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
  • good afternoon — greeting
  • good-time girl — a young woman whose chief concern is seeking pleasure and having fun
  • gordon bennett — an exclamation of surprise
  • graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
  • grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • grease-stained — stained with grease marks
  • great doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
  • great kiskadee — any of several American flycatchers of the genus Pitangus, especially P. sulphuratus (great kiskadee) ranging from the southwest U.S. to Argentina and noted for their loud calls and aggressive nature.
  • great red spot — a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • great-grandson — a grandson of one's son or daughter.
  • greater london — Jack, 1876–1916, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
  • green verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
  • 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.
  • groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
  • groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
  • grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
  • guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
  • hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
  • hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
  • highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyperextending — Present participle of hyperextend.
  • hyperpigmented — Afflicted with hyperpigmentation.
  • hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
  • imparidigitate — having an odd number of fingers on each limb
  • in this regard — on this point
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