14-letter words containing e, n, t, i, s
- galactic noise — unidentified radio-frequency radiation originating from beyond the solar system.
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- garrison state — a state in which military matters dominate economic and political life.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gelatinisation — Alternative spelling of gelatinization.
- gender studies — subject: male and female roles
- general strike — a mass strike in all or many trades and industries in a section or in all parts of a country.
- generalisation — The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- generating set — a generator
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- genuine assets — the tangible and intangible assets that make an organization unique, including things such as exclusive customer relationships, etc
- geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
- gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
- gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
- give sb 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 short fixed period of time.
- given that sth — If you say given that something is the case, you mean taking that fact into account.
- golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
- golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
- grangerisation — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- 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.
- greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
- grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- 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.
- haematogenesis — (physiology) The origin and development of blood.
- hair extension — attached length of hair
- hammerstein ii — Oscar. 1895–1960, US librettist and songwriter: collaborated with the composer Richard Rodgers in musicals such as South Pacific (1949) and The Sound of Music (1959)
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
- happenstantial — Being or relating to happenstance.
- hauts-de-seine — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
- head restraint — a rest or support of any kind for the head.
- heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
- heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
- heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
- heat-resistant — able to resist and remain unaffected by heat
- heat-sensitive — responding to heat or to changes in temperature
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- heating system — a system that provides heat to a building or number of buildings
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.