14-letter words containing g, i, l, n, e, t
- false-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- file signature — A magic number.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- filter feeding — a method of feeding occurring in some aquatic animals, such as planktonic invertebrates and whalebone whales, in which minute food particles are filtered from the surrounding water
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- first language — mother tongue
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
- floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- galactic noise — unidentified radio-frequency radiation originating from beyond the solar system.
- galactic plane — the plane of the galactic equator.
- galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
- gallatin range — a mountain range in NW Wyoming and SW Montana. High point, Electric Peak, 10,992 feet (3350 meters).
- galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gelatinisation — Alternative spelling of gelatinization.
- gelatinization — to make gelatinous.
- general strike — a mass strike in all or many trades and industries in a section or in all parts of a country.
- generalisation — The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
- generationally — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
- genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
- gentian violet — a dye derived from rosaniline, used in chemistry as an indicator and in medicine as a fungicide, bactericide, anthelmintic, and in the treatment of burns.
- geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
- geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- glycogenolytic — Of, pertaining to, or capable of glycogenolysis, the catabolism of glycogen.
- go into detail — elaborate, recount more fully
- golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
- golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
- grain elevator — elevator (def 4).