14-letter words containing o, r, g, e, l
- foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- 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.
- 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.
- geographically — of or relating to geography.
- 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).
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- 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.
- 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.
- glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
- 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.
- golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
- good-time girl — a young woman whose chief concern is seeking pleasure and having fun
- 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.
- 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-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.