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

  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
  • hardy ageratum — the mistflower.
  • have the grace — to be so aware of what is proper as (to do something)
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • 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.
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
  • heterographies — Plural form of heterography.
  • hierogrammatic — of or relating to a hierogram
  • highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • housing market — property trade
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • hyperoxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
  • 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.
  • imparidigitate — having an odd number of fingers on each limb
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • in the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • in this regard — on this point
  • insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
  • integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
  • integrated day — teaching that is organized around themes, rather than separate subjects
  • integrationist — a person who believes in, supports, or works for social integration.
  • inter-regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
  • interdigitated — Simple past tense and past participle of interdigitate.
  • 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
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