14-letter words containing i, p, r
- foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
- fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
- fraternity pin — a pin worn on clothing that indicates membership in a fraternity
- free companion — a member of a band of mercenary soldiers during the Middle Ages.
- free expansion — the expansion of a gas into an evacuated space without the transfer of heat or the performance of work.
- freezing point — the temperature at which a liquid freezes: The freezing point of water is 32°F, 0°C.
- friar preacher — a Dominican friar.
- friday prayers — the congregational prayers observed by Muslims every Friday
- frontoparietal — of or relating to the frontal and parietal bones of the cranium.
- frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
- function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
- g-strophanthin — ouabain.
- galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
- gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
- general public — people in general
- generation gap — a lack of communication between one generation and another, especially between young people and their parents, brought about by differences of tastes, values, outlook, etc.
- generic markup — (text) In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- genre painting — a category of painting in which domestic scenes or incidents from everyday life are depicted
- geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
- geographically — of or relating to geography.
- geometric pace — a modern form of a Roman pace, a measure of length taken as 5 feet
- geomorphogenic — relating to geomorphogeny
- gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
- glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
- grande prairie — a city in W Alberta, in W Canada.
- granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- graph coloring — graph colouring
- graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
- graphic artist — sb who draws, paints, prints, etc.
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
- graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
- grappling iron — a grapnel.
- great plantain — a N temperate plant, Plantago major, which has a rosette of broad leaves and a slender spike of small greenish flowers: family Plantaginaceae
- grid capacitor — a capacitor connected in series with the grid.
- gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
- groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
- group marriage — (among primitive peoples) a form of marriage in which a group of males is united with a group of females to form a single conjugal unit.
- group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
- group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
- group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.