14-letter words containing g, a, t, e, c
- 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.
- schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
- 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
- self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
- sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
- spectrological — relating to spectres or spectrology
- stage director — a person who directs a theatrical production.
- starting price — gambling odds
- state of grace — grace (def 8d).
- steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
- steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
- sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
- stock exchange — a building or place where stocks and other securities are bought and sold.
- stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
- stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
- sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
- tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
- tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
- target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
- tax-collecting — the collection of taxes owed by individuals
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- telangiectasis — chronic dilatation of the capillaries and other small blood vessels.
- televangelical — relating to televangelism