14-letter words containing l, o, r, e, t
- from the floor — during the time of a game when active defense is permitted
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- front-end load — the sales commission and other fees taken out of the first year's payment under a contractual plan for purchasing shares of a mutual fund (front-end load fund) over a period of years.
- frontoparietal — of or relating to the frontal and parietal bones of the cranium.
- frontotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes.
- gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- 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.
- 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.
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- george calvert — Charles (3rd Baron Baltimore) 1637–1715, English colonial administrator in America: governor (1661–75) and proprietor (1675–89) of Maryland (grandson of George Calvert).
- gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
- golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
- good-time girl — a young woman whose chief concern is seeking pleasure and having fun
- gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
- governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
- granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
- 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.
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- great doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
- great gray owl — a large, dish-faced, gray owl, Strix nebulosa, of northern North America and western Eurasia, having streaked and barred plumage.
- greater london — Jack, 1876–1916, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
- groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
- groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
- haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
- half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
- half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
- have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
- heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.