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14-letter words containing g, c, r

  • stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
  • stirling cycle — a highly efficient thermodynamic cycle in which air or an inert gas is compressed and expanded
  • 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
  • stomatogastric — relating to the mouth and stomach or the connections between the mouth and stomach
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • straight chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
  • straight chair — a chair with a straight back, especially one that is unupholstered and has straight legs and straight arms or no arms.
  • straight-chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
  • 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.
  • straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
  • striking price — in an option contract, the specified price at which a stock, commodity, etc. may be bought or sold; the price at which an investor can exercise profitably a put or call
  • strip cropping — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
  • subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
  • sweeping score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to the foot score and extending through the center of the tee.
  • sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
  • tachygraphical — characteristic of tachygraphy
  • 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
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • teratogenicity — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
  • terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • terotechnology — a branch of technology that utilizes management, financial, and engineering expertise in the installation and efficient operation and maintenance of equipment and machinery
  • thaumaturgical — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • thick register — chest register.
  • thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
  • throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
  • track lighting — lighting for a room or other area in which individual spotlight fixtures are attached along a narrow, wall- or ceiling-mounted metal track through which current is conducted, permitting flexible positioning of the lights.
  • tracking radar — a radar system emitting a narrow beam which oscillates about the target, thus compensating for abrupt changes of direction
  • traffic lights — a set of coloured lights placed at crossroads, junctions, etc, to control the flow of traffic
  • tragacanth gum — Tragacanth gum is a gum obtained from the tragacanth plant, used as a suspending agent.
  • trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
  • tropologically — in a way which uses figurative language
  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
  • turning circle — the smallest circle in which a vehicle can turn
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • ulrich zwingli — Ulrich [oo l-rikh] /ˈʊl rɪx/ (Show IPA), or Huldreich [hoo l-drahykh] /ˈhʊl draɪx/ (Show IPA), 1484–1531, Swiss Protestant reformer.
  • ultraenergetic — (of particles) producing exceptional levels of energy
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