14-letter words containing g, a, e, t
- anticarcinogen — a chemical that acts against cancer
- antienergistic — resisting applied energy
- antiforeignism — the policy or practice of showing hostility toward foreigners, foreign customs, etc.
- antigovernment — opposed to government
- antimanagement — relating to a theory of organization opposed to management
- antiregulatory — opposed to regulation
- antitechnology — opposed to technology or the use of technological devices
- apologetically — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- apophthegmatic — Alternative form of apothegmatic.
- apothegmatical — Relating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
- approach stage — the stage of landing when a plane is approaching the runway
- approximeeting — the practice of a group of people making indefinite plans to meet and then altering those plans regularly via mobile phones according to changing circumstances
- arc-jet engine — a type of rocket engine using propellant gas heated by an electric arc.
- archaeologists — Plural form of archaeologist.
- archgenethliac — the person most proficient at casting horoscopes
- archipterygium — (anatomy) A primitive fin, like that of Ceratodus.
- argonne forest — a wooded region in NE France: battles, World War I, 1918; World War II, 1944.
- argue the toss — to wrangle or dispute at length
- argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
- argus pheasant — either of two pheasants, Argusianus argus (great argus) or Rheinardia ocellata (crested argus), occurring in SE Asia and Indonesia. The males have very long tails marked with eyelike spots
- arresting gear — any mechanism or device for bringing something to a stop, as an airplane landing on an aircraft carrier.
- arteriographic — relating to arteriography
- as all get-out — to a considerable degree; greatly
- asphalt jungle — an expression used to refer to a city environment, which emphasizes its dangerous nature
- asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
- assistance dog — a dog that has been specially trained to live with and accompany a disabled person, carrying out such tasks as prompting them to take medication or assisting them to cross a road
- assisted dying — the suicide of a person afflicted by an incurable disease, using a lethal dose of drugs provided by a physician for this purpose
- associated gas — Associated gas is raw natural gas that comes through crude oil wells.
- astigmatometer — an apparatus for measuring the degree of astigmatism.
- astigmatoscope — an instrument for determining the presence and severity of astigmatism.
- astrogeologist — a person who studies astrogeology
- at close range — If you see or hit something at close range or from close range, you are very close to it when you see it or hit it. If you do something at a range of half a mile, for example, you are half a mile away from it when you do it.
- at full length — stretched out; completely extended
- at loggerheads — If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other.
- auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
- augean stables — the stables, not cleaned for 30 years, where King Augeas kept 3000 oxen. Hercules diverted the River Alpheus through them and cleaned them in a day
- auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
- augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
- authenticating — to establish as genuine.
- autobiographer — a person who writes the story of his or her own life
- autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
- autoregressive — (statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results.
- autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
- autosuggestion — a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs
- aviation badge — wings.
- aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
- baby-battering — the physical abuse of a baby or young child
- back catalogue — A musical performer's back catalogue is the music which they recorded and released in the past rather than their latest recordings.
- backscattering — the scattering of rays or particles at angles to the original direction of motion of greater than 90°
- backstage pass — a document or badge that entitles the bearer to go backstage at an event, esp a pop concert