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14-letter words containing g, r, i, c, e

  • piece together — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • popping crease — a line parallel to and in advance of a bowling crease, marking the limit of a batsman's approach in hitting the ball.
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • pre-collegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
  • precipitinogen — Immunology. an antigen that stimulates precipitin production or that reacts with antibody in an immunoprecipitation reaction.
  • press clipping — clipping (def 2).
  • processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
  • proto-germanic — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
  • protogeometric — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece chiefly during the 10th century b.c. and characterized by use of abstract geometrical motifs.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • psychic energy — according to Freud, the force that lies behind all mental processes, having its basic source as the id.
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • racing bicycle — a bicycle designed for cycling on roads or taking part in road cycling races
  • rags to riches — You use rags to riches to describe the way in which someone quickly becomes very rich after they have been quite poor.
  • raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
  • ranch dressing — seasoned mayonnaise sauce
  • reading notice — a short advertisement placed at the bottom of a column, as on the front page of a newspaper, and often set in the same print as other matter.
  • receiving line — a row formed by the hosts, guests of honor, or the like, for receiving guests formally at a ball, reception, etc.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • record-keeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • recording head — the part of a tape recorder that records a sound source by converting the electrical analog of the sound, as from a microphone, into a magnetic signal for storage on magnetic tape.
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • reflexological — of or relating to reflexology
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • retrocognition — the paranormal ability or occurrence of seeing into the past
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
  • rowing machine — an exercise machine having a mechanism with two oarlike handles, foot braces, and a sliding seat, allowing the user to go through the motions of rowing in a racing shell.
  • sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
  • scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • screen editing — the act or process of editing text on screen
  • screen popping — (communications)   The use of CTI to make customer data appear on a call centre terminal at the same time as the customer call is transferred.
  • screen sharing — audiographic teleconferencing
  • screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
  • screening room — a room where films are screened for a private audience
  • screening test — a simple test performed on a large number of people to identify those who have or are likely to develop a specified disease
  • scrimmage line — line of scrimmage.
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