14-letter words containing g, r, o, s
- ferromanganese — a ferroalloy containing up to 90 percent manganese.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
- fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
- flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
- flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- flowering moss — pyxie.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
- foot passenger — sb travelling on a boat without a car
- for god's sake — Some people use expressions such as for God's sake, for heaven's sake, for goodness sake, or for Pete's sake in order to express annoyance or impatience, or to add force to a question or request. The expressions 'for God's sake' and 'for Christ's sake' could cause offence.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- g-strophanthin — ouabain.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
- gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
- galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
- garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
- garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
- garrison state — a state in which military matters dominate economic and political life.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- generalisation — The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- generalissimos — Plural form of generalissimo.
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- george hw bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
- georges cuvier — Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert [zhawrzh ley-aw-pawld krey-tyan frey-dey-reek da-gaw-ber] /ʒɔrʒ leɪ ɔˈpɔld kreɪˈtyɛ̃ freɪ deɪˈrik da gɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1769–1832, French naturalist: pioneer in the fields of paleontology and comparative anatomy.
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
- 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.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
- giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
- glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.