14-letter words containing g, e, n, o, u
- erogenous zone — a part of the body that is sensitive to sexual stimulation
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
- frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
- funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
- garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- 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.
- gentoo penguin — a penguin, Pygoscelis papua, of small Antarctic islands.
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- giuseppe peano — (person, mathematics, logic) (1858-08-27 - 1932-04-20) An Italian mathematician who wrote over 200 books and papers, was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory and taught at the University of Turin. He contributed to mathematical analysis, logic, the teaching of calculus, differential equations, vector analysis and the axiomatization of mathematics. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named Peano arithmetic or the Peano axioms after him. He also invented the Peano curve, an early example of a fractal.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- gluttonousness — The quality of being gluttonous.
- go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
- greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
- gregariousness — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundlessness — The state or condition of being groundless.