14-letter words containing g, r, i, f
- fringe theatre — theatrical performance that is unconventional or otherwise distinct from the mainstream
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gentrification — the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
- getting on for — Getting on for means the same as nearly.
- give free rein — to allow considerable freedom; remove restraints
- give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
- great firewall — a system that prevents access to websites deemed undesirable by the government of the People's Republic of China
- grid reference — geographical co-ordinates
- grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
- group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
- infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
- infrangibility — The quality of being infrangible.
- interfingering — (of sedimentary rocks) to change laterally from one type to another in a zone where the two types form interpenetrating wedges.
- kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
- 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).
- life-affirming — A life-affirming activity or attitude emphasizes the positive aspects of life.
- lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
- light aircraft — A light aircraft is a small aeroplane that is designed to carry a small number of passengers or a small amount of goods.
- light infantry — foot soldiers with lightweight weapons and minimal field equipment.
- light-fingered — skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- mittag-leffler — Magnus Gösta [mahng-nuhs yœ-stah] /ˈmɑŋ nʌs ˈyœ stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1846–1927, Swedish mathematician.
- morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
- morning coffee — a mid-morning snack with a cup of coffee drunk during a short break at work, or in your house, when you might invite someone in
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- nitrogen fixer — any of various microorganisms in the soil involved in the process of nitrogen fixation.
- non-conforming — to act in accordance or harmony; comply (usually followed by to): to conform to rules.
- noninterfering — Not interfering.
- not forgetting — You say not forgetting a particular thing or person when you want to include them in something that you have already talked about.
- nothing for it — no choice; no other course
- offering price — the price quoted when something is offered for sale, especially the price per share, as of an investment security or mutual fund being sold to the public.
- office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
- on firm ground — in a safe situation
- openoffice.org — (project) (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
- organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
- over-dignified — to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.