14-letter words containing e, n, r, g, i, s
- grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
- grangerisation — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
- grease-stained — stained with grease marks
- 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.
- gregariousness — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
- grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
- groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- growing season — The growing season in a particular country or area is the period in each year when the weather and temperature is right for plants and crops to grow.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
- highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- housing market — property trade
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hyperhygienist — Being too hygienic.
- in one's glory — at one's best, happiest, etc.
- in this regard — on this point
- incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
- index register — (processor) A register found in some CPUs, whose contents can be added to the address operand to give the effective address. Incrementing the index register then allows the program to access the next location in memory and so on, making it very useful for working with arrays or blocks of memory. Index registers first appeared around April 1949 in the Manchester Mark I. The Mark I's index register's contents were simply added to the entire instruction, thus potentially changing the opcode (see The story of Mel)!
- ingloriousness — The state of being inglorious.
- ingressiveness — Quality of being ingressive.
- insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
- integrationist — a person who believes in, supports, or works for social integration.
- intelligencers — Plural form of intelligencer.
- interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
- interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
- interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
- interrogations — Plural form of interrogation.
- interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
- intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
- intertriginous — (medicine) Of or relating to intertrigo.
- intransigeance — intransigence
- intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
- jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
- kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
- king's pattern — a spoon pattern of the 19th century having a stem decorated with threads, scrolls, and shell motifs.
- king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
- kissing bridge — a covered bridge.
- l-asparaginase — an enzyme that destroys asparagine, a nonessential amino acid needed as a nutrient by rapidly growing cells: used in treating leukemia
- landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.