14-letter words containing o, r, a, e
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
- 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.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- 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.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
- 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.
- golden warbler — yellow warbler.
- good afternoon — greeting
- goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- 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)
- governableness — The state of being governable.
- government man — (in the 19th century) a convict
- 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.
- grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
- grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
- grand ole opry — a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- grangerisation — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- grangerization — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- 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.
- grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
- gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- grease remover — a substance that removes grease
- 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.
- great red spot — a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
- great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- great-grandson — a grandson of one's son or daughter.
- greater london — Jack, 1876–1916, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
- green lead ore — pyromorphite.
- greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
- gregariousness — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- gregorian mode — church mode.
- gregorian tone — a plainsong melody
- greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
- ground leakage — Ground leakage is the flow of current from a live conductor to the earth through the insulation.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- 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.