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14-letter words containing g, r, a, n, t

  • intergradation — the act or process of intergrading or the state of being intergraded.
  • interior angle — an angle formed between parallel lines by a third line that intersects them.
  • interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
  • interlingually — in an interlingual manner
  • intermediating — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
  • intermigration — reciprocal migration; interchange of habitat by migrating groups.
  • interrogations — Plural form of interrogation.
  • interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
  • intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
  • interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
  • intransigeance — intransigence
  • intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
  • invigoratingly — In an invigorating manner.
  • irving babbittIrving, 1865–1933, U.S. educator and critic.
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • joint mortgage — a loan of money from a bank or building society to buy a house which two or more people are jointly responsible for repaying
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
  • kindergartener — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • king's pattern — a spoon pattern of the 19th century having a stem decorated with threads, scrolls, and shell motifs.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • leading rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable but junior to that of a corporal in the army
  • leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
  • 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).
  • lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
  • light infantry — foot soldiers with lightweight weapons and minimal field equipment.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • literary agent — a person who manages the business affairs of an author
  • loan agreement — an agreement on the terms of a loan
  • loan guarantee — an undertaking by a government to pay a debt if the borrower defaults
  • 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.
  • long-term care — continuing help and attention
  • lot-et-garonne — a department in SW France. 2079 sq. mi. (5385 sq. km). Capital: Agen.
  • lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
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