14-letter words containing g, r, a, c, e, n
- grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
- graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- great entrance — the solemn procession in which the unconsecrated Eucharistic elements are carried from the prothesis through the nave of the church and into the bema.
- greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- guiana current — an ocean current flowing northwest along the northeast coast of South America.
- guinea current — an ocean current flowing E along the Guinea coast of W Africa.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
- heat exchanger — a device for transferring the heat of one substance to another, as from the exhaust gases to the incoming air in a regenerative furnace.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hypervigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
- hypoallergenic — designed to reduce or minimize the possibility of an allergic response, as by containing relatively few or no potentially irritating substances: hypoallergenic cosmetics.
- iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
- integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
- intransigeance — intransigence
- jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
- jamaica ginger — an alcoholic extract of ginger used as a flavoring.
- juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 sq miles)
- lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
- learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- legal currency — money that is officially part of a country's currency
- light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
- long-term care — continuing help and attention
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
- magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
- magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
- magnetic strip — a strip of magnetic material on which information may be stored, as by an electromagnetic process, for automatic reading, decoding, or recognition by a device that detects magnetic variations on the strip: a credit card with a magnetic strip to prevent counterfeiting.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- magnox reactor — a nuclear reactor using carbon dioxide as the coolant, graphite as the moderator, and uranium cased in magnox as the fuel
- mail exchanger — (messaging) A server running SMTP Message Transfer Agent software that accepts incoming electronic mail and either delivers it locally or forwards it to another server. The mail exchanger to use for a given domain can be discovered by querying DNS for Mail Exchange Records.
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff