14-letter words containing g, o, l, p
- gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
- grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- graph coloring — graph colouring
- graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- grappling iron — a grapnel.
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- gyroscopically — Using a gyroscope.
- hagiographical — Hagiographic.
- happy-go-lucky — trusting cheerfully to luck; happily unworried or unconcerned.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
- herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
- herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.
- hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
- hierographical — hierographic
- high explosive — a class of explosive, as TNT, in which the reaction is so rapid as to be practically instantaneous, used in shells and bombs.
- high-card pool — red dog.
- highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
- histopathology — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
- hospital light — hopper casement.
- hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
- hydrographical — Hydrographic.
- hydroxyl group — the univalent group –OH, as in inorganic compounds, such as sodium hydroxide, NaOH, or as in organic compounds, such as ethyl alcohol, C 2 H 6 O.
- hypergolically — in a hypergolic manner
- hypoallergenic — designed to reduce or minimize the possibility of an allergic response, as by containing relatively few or no potentially irritating substances: hypoallergenic cosmetics.
- hypophalangism — the condition of having fewer than the normal number of phalanges per finger or toe.
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- laryngopharynx — the lower part of the pharynx, above the larynx.
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
- leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
- lending policy — a set of guidelines and criteria developed by a bank and used by its employees to determine whether an applicant for a loan should be granted or refused the loan
- leptomeningeal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the leptomeninges.
- lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
- lipogrammatism — the practice or art of writing lipograms
- lipogrammatist — a person who writes lipograms
- listening post — Military. a post or position, as in advance of a defensive line, established for the purpose of listening to detect the enemy's movements.
- lithographical — Of or pertaining to lithography.
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- lodgepole pine — a tall, narrow, slow-growing coniferous tree, Pinus contorta, of western North America, having egg-shaped cones that remain closed for years.
- logic-chopping — the use of excessively subtle argument