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14-letter words containing e, n, r, g, u

  • 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.
  • gene frequency — the frequency of occurrence of a particular allele in a population
  • general public — people in general
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • gerald sussman — (person)   (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
  • gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
  • get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • 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.
  • graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
  • grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
  • granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • green currency — a currency whose value is adjusted in accordance with fluctuations between the currencies of the EU nations
  • greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
  • gregariousness — fond of the company of others; sociable.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • groundlessness — The state or condition of being groundless.
  • 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.
  • groundskeepers — Plural form of groundskeeper.
  • groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
  • group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • group of seven — G7.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • guardian angel — an angel believed to protect a particular person, as from danger or error.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • guiana current — an ocean current flowing northwest along the northeast coast of South America.
  • guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
  • guinea current — an ocean current flowing E along the Guinea coast of W Africa.
  • gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
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