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14-letter words containing l, o, n, g, i, r

  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • exterior angle — an angle of a polygon contained between one side extended and the adjacent side
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
  • floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • floor covering — any material used to cover the floor of a room, such as a carpet or tiles
  • floor planning — a system of financing that permits a dealer to borrow money to buy goods, which become the security for the loan that is repaid when the merchandise is sold.
  • floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • foreign legion — a military unit consisting of foreign volunteers in the service of a state.
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • 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.
  • generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
  • generationally — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geochronologic — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
  • global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
  • grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • graph coloring — graph colouring
  • grappling iron — a grapnel.
  • gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • hanging scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • honour killing — a murder committed by a male on a female relative considered to have brought dishonour to the family, usually through sexual activity forbidden by religion or tradition
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