14-letter words containing g, r, a, d, t, o
- disorientating — to disorient.
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- drag your feet — dawdle
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- drug addiction — dependence on a chemical substance
- editorializing — Present participle of editorialize.
- exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- food rationing — the practice of having a fixed allowance of food, esp a statutory one for civilians in time of scarcity or soldiers in time of war
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- 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.
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- 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 hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
- good afternoon — greeting
- good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
- graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
- graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
- grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- great doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
- great red spot — a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
- great-grandson — a grandson of one's son or daughter.
- greater london — Jack, 1876–1916, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- grid capacitor — a capacitor connected in series with the grid.
- grid variation — the angle, at any point on the surface of the earth, between the magnetic and true meridians passing through that point.
- groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
- grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
- grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- indoctrinating — Present participle of indoctrinate.
- infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
- intergradation — the act or process of intergrading or the state of being intergraded.
- linkage editor — linker
- linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
- long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
- long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
- managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- multigrade oil — Multigrade oil is engine or gear oil which works well at both low and high temperatures.