14-letter words containing e, r, i, g, n
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- free-machining — (of certain metals) readily machinable at high speeds with low force.
- freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
- freezing point — the temperature at which a liquid freezes: The freezing point of water is 32°F, 0°C.
- freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
- freight engine — a locomotive for pulling freight trains, designed for high drawbar pull rather than high speed.
- fringe benefit — any of various benefits, as free life or health insurance, paid holidays, a pension, etc., received by an employee in addition to regular pay.
- fringe meeting — a meeting that takes place during a convention and is attended only by people whose views are not central to the majority
- fringe theatre — theatrical performance that is unconventional or otherwise distinct from the mainstream
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
- gallatin range — a mountain range in NW Wyoming and SW Montana. High point, Electric Peak, 10,992 feet (3350 meters).
- gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
- garrison state — a state in which military matters dominate economic and political life.
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- gaussian curve — normal curve.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gender studies — subject: male and female roles
- gender-bending — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
- gender-variant — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to socially defined male or female gender norms: Don't call him a sissy; he's just a teenager with gender-variant behavior. Are metrosexuals part of the gender-variant community?
- general public — people in general
- 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.
- generalissimos — Plural form of generalissimo.
- generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
- generating set — a generator
- generation gap — a lack of communication between one generation and another, especially between young people and their parents, brought about by differences of tastes, values, outlook, etc.
- generationally — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- 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.
- genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
- genie services — GE Information Services
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- genre painting — a category of painting in which domestic scenes or incidents from everyday life are depicted
- gentrification — the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
- geochronologic — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
- geoengineering — The deliberate large-scale manipulation of an environmental process that affects the earth’s climate, in an attempt to counteract the effects of global warming.
- geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
- geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field