14-letter words containing g, a, t, e, c, r
- magnox reactor — a nuclear reactor using carbon dioxide as the coolant, graphite as the moderator, and uranium cased in magnox as the fuel
- margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
- megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocytic — Of, pertaining to, or containing megakaryocytes.
- mercapto group — the univalent group –SH.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- message center — an office or other area where incoming and outgoing messages, mail, etc., are received and transmitted, as by telephone, computer, or messenger.
- metapragmatics — Language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.
- meteorological — pertaining to meteorology or to phenomena of the atmosphere or weather.
- micromagnetism — (physics) The study of magnetism at the sub-micrometre scale.
- micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
- micropegmatite — a rock with a microscopic pegmatitic structure
- mie scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are large relative to the wavelength of the light.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- noncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- nongeometrical — not geometrical
- noninteracting — not interacting, failing to interact
- north germanic — the subbranch of Germanic that includes the languages of Scandinavia and Iceland.
- object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- operating cost — The operating cost of a business, or a piece of equipment or machinery is the amount of money that it costs to run it.
- organic matter — matter derived from organisms, esp decayed matter in soil
- organometallic — pertaining to or noting an organic compound containing a metal or a metalloid linked to carbon.
- packet writing — (storage) A technique for writing CD-Rs and CD-RWs that is more efficient in both disk space used and the time it takes to write the CD.
- parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
- patch together — assemble roughly
- post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- pregnancy test — diagnostic kit for determining pregnancy
- processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
- proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- rags to riches — You use rags to riches to describe the way in which someone quickly becomes very rich after they have been quite poor.
- reading notice — a short advertisement placed at the bottom of a column, as on the front page of a newspaper, and often set in the same print as other matter.
- recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
- recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
- reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
- reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- scrape through — only just succeed
- screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
- security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
- segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
- sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.