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14-letter words containing g, e, o, t, c

  • osteogenically — By osteogenesis.
  • osteologically — Concerning only the osteological aspects.
  • overcommitting — Present participle of overcommit.
  • paleoecologist — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations and interactions between ancient life forms and their environment.
  • patch together — assemble roughly
  • photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
  • piece of eight — peso (def 4).
  • piece together — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
  • planetological — involving or relating to planetology
  • pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
  • post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
  • postcollegiate — denoting something that takes place after college or among those that are no longer at college
  • 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.
  • precipitinogen — Immunology. an antigen that stimulates precipitin production or that reacts with antibody in an immunoprecipitation reaction.
  • 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.
  • proto-oncogene — a normally present gene that appears to have a role in the regulation of normal cell growth, but that is converted to an oncogene by mutation.
  • protogeometric — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece chiefly during the 10th century b.c. and characterized by use of abstract geometrical motifs.
  • psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • 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.
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • 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.
  • retrocognition — the paranormal ability or occurrence of seeing into the past
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • roentgenoscope — a fluoroscope.
  • rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
  • schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • second sitting — A second sitting is the second period when a meal is served if there is not enough space for everyone to eat at the same time.
  • second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • sedimentologic — of or relating to sedimentology
  • semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
  • sorting office — postal
  • sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
  • spectrological — relating to spectres or spectrology
  • stage director — a person who directs a theatrical production.
  • state of grace — grace (def 8d).
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • stick together — be united
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