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14-letter words containing g, r

  • intelligencers — Plural form of intelligencer.
  • 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.
  • interdepending — Present participle of interdepend.
  • interdigitated — Simple past tense and past participle of interdigitate.
  • interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
  • interfingering — (of sedimentary rocks) to change laterally from one type to another in a zone where the two types form interpenetrating wedges.
  • 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.
  • intermittingly — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
  • interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
  • interrogations — Plural form of interrogation.
  • interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
  • intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
  • intertriginous — (medicine) Of or relating to intertrigo.
  • interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
  • intransigeance — intransigence
  • intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
  • invigoratingly — In an invigorating manner.
  • inward-looking — person
  • iris diaphragm — a composite diaphragm with a central aperture readily adjustable for size, used to regulate the amount of light admitted to a lens or optical system.
  • irregular verb — verb with non-standard past tense
  • irregularities — the quality or state of being irregular.
  • irving babbittIrving, 1865–1933, U.S. educator and critic.
  • isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
  • itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • jamaica ginger — an alcoholic extract of ginger used as a flavoring.
  • jardin anglais — a landscape garden having winding paths and irregular planting.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • jiggery-pokery — trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug.
  • joint mortgage — a loan of money from a bank or building society to buy a house which two or more people are jointly responsible for repaying
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • jungle warfare — the specialized techniques required by the military to survive and fight in jungle terrain
  • junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
  • kangaroo court — a self-appointed or mob-operated tribunal that disregards or parodies existing principles of law or human rights, especially one in a frontier area or among criminals in prison.
  • kangaroo grass — a tall widespread Australian grass, Themeda australis, which is highly palatable to cattle and is used for fodder
  • kegel exercise — Often, Kegel exercises. exercise performed to strengthen the pubococcygeus and other muscles of the pelvic floor, in order to control incontinence, improve sexual response, etc.
  • kelp greenling — a food and game fish, Hexagrammos decagrammus, living among the kelp along the Pacific coast of North America.
  • kendal (green) — a coarse, green woolen cloth
  • kierkegaardian — of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy or religious views of Kierkegaard.
  • 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.
  • kilogram-meter — a meter-kilogram-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one kilogram when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force; approximately 7.2 foot-pounds. Abbreviation: kg-m.
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