14-letter words containing l, g, e
- rangeley lakes — chain of lakes in W Me. & NE N.H.
- rattle through — If you rattle through something, you deal with it quickly in order to finish it.
- re-eligibility — the quality or state of being re-eligible
- realized gains — Realized gains are gains which have been made from the sale of an asset.
- reamalgamation — the act or process of amalgamating.
- reassimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- receiving line — a row formed by the hosts, guests of honor, or the like, for receiving guests formally at a ball, reception, etc.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- reflexological — of or relating to reflexology
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- regulator gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- relay language — a language, usually an internationally dominant one, which acts as a medium to translate other usually little-spoken languages
- relieving arch — discharging arch.
- reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- retail banking — banking for individual customers
- retaining wall — a wall for holding in place a mass of earth or the like, as at the edge of a terrace or excavation.
- revolving door — an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
- revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
- revolving-door — an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right triangle — a triangle having a right angle (contrasted with oblique triangle).
- right-to-lifer — someone who supports the right to life of the unborn and opposes abortion, experiments on embryos, etc
- roger williams — Ben Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1889–1953, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
- roller bearing — a bearing consisting of cylindrical or tapered rollers running between races in two concentric rings, one of which is mounted on a rotating or oscillating part, as a shaft.
- roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
- rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
- rolling stones — the. British rock group (formed 1962): comprising Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (born 1943; guitar, vocals), Brian Jones (1942–69; guitar), Charlie Watts (born 1941; drums), Bill Wyman (born 1936; bass guitar; now retired), and subsequently Mick Taylor (born 1948; guitar; with the group 1969–74) and Ron Wood (born 1947; guitar; with the group from 1975)
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- rooting reflex — a reflex in infants in which the head is turned towards any stimulus; used to find the nipple
- route flapping — flapping router
- royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
- royal marriage — a meld of the king and queen of trumps, as in pinochle. Compare marriage (def 9).
- rummelgumption — commonsense
- rummlegumption — common sense
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- running myrtle — the periwinkle, Vinca minor.
- saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
- sacred college — the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
- sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sacrococcygeal — relating to the sacrum and the coccyx
- sailing length — a measurement of a yacht, comprising its length on the water line as well as certain measurements taken from the overhangs at bow and stern.