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14-letter words containing n, e, g, o, t

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • intermigration — reciprocal migration; interchange of habitat by migrating groups.
  • interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
  • interrogations — Plural form of interrogation.
  • interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
  • intertriginous — (medicine) Of or relating to intertrigo.
  • investigations — Plural form of investigation.
  • itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
  • jelly doughnut — a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.
  • 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
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • knock together — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
  • kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
  • lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
  • legitimization — to make legitimate.
  • leptomeningeal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the leptomeninges.
  • let oneself go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • levonorgestrel — A synthetic steroid hormone that has a similar effect to progesterone and is used in some contraceptive pills.
  • lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • listening post — Military. a post or position, as in advance of a defensive line, established for the purpose of listening to detect the enemy's movements.
  • little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
  • loan agreement — an agreement on the terms of a loan
  • loan guarantee — an undertaking by a government to pay a debt if the borrower defaults
  • long-forgotten — belonging to the past; no longer remembered
  • long-term care — continuing help and attention
  • longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • lot-et-garonne — a department in SW France. 2079 sq. mi. (5385 sq. km). Capital: Agen.
  • lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
  • low technology — any technology utilizing equipment and production techniques that are relatively unsophisticated (opposed to high technology).
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
  • magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
  • magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
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