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14-letter words containing e, g, o, i, t

  • stick together — be united
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
  • stinking roger — any of various plants having an unpleasant odor.
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
  • stopping power — a measure of the effect a substance has on the kinetic energy of a particle passing through it
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
  • straighten out — make straighter
  • strike through — cross out
  • striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
  • styling mousse — a light foamy substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • suggestion box — receptacle for customers' comments
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • sweet nothings — terms of endearment
  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • tax-collecting — the collection of taxes owed by individuals
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
  • tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
  • tenzing norgay — 1914–86, Nepalese mountaineer. With Sir Edmund Hillary, he was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1953)
  • teratogenicity — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • the atomic age — the current historical period, initiated by the development of the first atomic bomb towards the end of World War II and now marked by a balance of power between nations possessing the hydrogen bomb and the use of nuclear power as a source of energy
  • the done thing — If you say that something is the done thing, you mean it is the most socially acceptable way to behave.
  • the footlights — the theater, or acting as a profession
  • the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
  • the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
  • the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
  • theriogenology — the branch of veterinary medicine encompassing all aspects of reproduction.
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
  • through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
  • tiger mosquito — a large Asian mosquito, Aedes albopictus, introduced into the southern U.S., that is a vector of dengue and other infectious diseases.
  • time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
  • to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
  • to give notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a fixed period of time.
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
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