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14-letter words containing g, r, t

  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • summer tanager — a tanager, Piranga rubra, of the south and central U.S., the male of which is rose-red, the female olive-green above and yellow below.
  • sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • supererogatory — going beyond the requirements of duty.
  • support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
  • suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
  • surgeon's knot — a knot resembling a reef knot, used by surgeons for tying ligatures and the like.
  • survivor guilt — feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.
  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
  • system program — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • tachygraphical — characteristic of tachygraphy
  • tailgate party — A tailgate party is a social gathering at which food is served from or near a vehicle, especially in a parking lot before a sports game.
  • tangata tiriti — a Māori term for non-Māori people
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • tarpon springs — a town in W Florida.
  • tate galleries — two art galleries in London, the original Tate Gallery (1897), now Tate Britain, and Tate Modern, created in the former Bankside power station in 2000
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • teeth grinding — habitual, purposeless clenching and grinding of the teeth, especially during sleep.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • telegraph pole — A telegraph pole is a tall wooden pole with telephone wires attached to it, connecting several different buildings to the telephone system.
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telephotograph — a photograph taken with a telephoto lens.
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • tenant farming — farming land owned by sb else
  • tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
  • tenzing norgay — 1914–86, Nepalese mountaineer. With Sir Edmund Hillary, he was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1953)
  • teratogenicity — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • terotechnology — a branch of technology that utilizes management, financial, and engineering expertise in the installation and efficient operation and maintenance of equipment and machinery
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • tetragrammaton — the Hebrew word for God, consisting of the four letters yod, he, vav, and he, transliterated consonantally usually as YHVH, now pronounced as Adonai or Elohim in substitution for the original pronunciation forbidden since the 2nd or 3rd century b.c.
  • texas longhorn — one of a breed of long-horned beef cattle of the southwestern U.S., developed from cattle introduced into North America from Spain and valued for disease resistance, fecundity, and a historical association with the old West: now rare.
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
  • thaumaturgical — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • the gender gap — the difference in the attitudes, behaviour, abilities, etc, of men and women, or boys and girls
  • the great glen — a fault valley across the whole of Scotland, extending southwest from the Moray Firth in the east to Loch Linnhe and containing Loch Ness and Loch Lochy
  • the great trek — the migration of Boer farmers with their slaves and African servants from the Cape Colony to the north and east from about 1836 to 1845 to escape British authority
  • the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
  • the lesser dog — the constellation Canis Minor
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