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

  • groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
  • group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • group of seven — G7.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • growing season — The growing season in a particular country or area is the period in each year when the weather and temperature is right for plants and crops to grow.
  • growth hormone — any substance that stimulates or controls the growth of an organism, especially a species-specific hormone, as the human hormone somatotropin, secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. Abbreviation: GH.
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • 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.
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
  • herring choker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
  • honours degree — a degree at honours level
  • hooker's green — a medium green to strong yellowish green.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • housing market — property trade
  • hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyperosteogeny — excessive bone development.
  • hyperoxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hypertrophying — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
  • hypoallergenic — designed to reduce or minimize the possibility of an allergic response, as by containing relatively few or no potentially irritating substances: hypoallergenic cosmetics.
  • iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • in one's glory — at one's best, happiest, etc.
  • in the morning — every morning
  • incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
  • ingloriousness — The state of being inglorious.
  • inner mongolia — an administrative division in NE China, adjoining the Mongolian People's Republic. 174,000 sq. mi. (450,660 sq. km). Capital: Hohhot.
  • integrationist — a person who believes in, supports, or works for social integration.
  • inter-regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • 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.
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