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14-letter words containing e, g, r, s

  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • league leaders — the team at the top of a league
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
  • level crossing — grade crossing.
  • levonorgestrel — A synthetic steroid hormone that has a similar effect to progesterone and is used in some contraceptive pills.
  • lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • lleras camargo — Alberto [ahl-ver-taw] /ɑlˈvɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–89, Colombian journalist, writer, and political leader: president 1945–46, 1958–62.
  • locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
  • longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • lose one's rag — If you lose your rag, you suddenly become so angry that you are not in control of yourself.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
  • magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
  • magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
  • manganese spar — Mineralogy. rhodonite or rhodochrosite.
  • mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
  • manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
  • maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
  • marcus regulus — Marcus Atilius [uh-til-ee-uh s] /əˈtɪl i əs/ (Show IPA), died 250? b.c, Roman general.
  • margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
  • market segment — a part of a market identifiable as having particular customers with specific buying characteristics
  • marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • marrons glaces — chestnuts cooked in syrup and glazed
  • mass marketing — the organization of the sale of a product to a large number of people
  • massage parlor — a commercial establishment providing massages.
  • masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
  • measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
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