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

  • flinders range — a mountain range in S Australia. Highest peak, St. Mary Peak, 3900 feet (1190 meters).
  • floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
  • floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • floor covering — any material used to cover the floor of a room, such as a carpet or tiles
  • floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
  • flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • foreign legion — a military unit consisting of foreign volunteers in the service of a state.
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
  • 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.
  • gallatin range — a mountain range in NW Wyoming and SW Montana. High point, Electric Peak, 10,992 feet (3350 meters).
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • garden warbler — any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy
  • 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.
  • gender-neutral — noting or relating to a word or phrase that does not refer to one gender only: Firefighter and flight attendant are gender-neutral terms.
  • genderlessness — The state or condition of being genderless; lack of gender.
  • general degree — a degree awarded at some universities, studied at a lower academic standard than an honours degree
  • general ledger — records, accounts
  • general public — people in general
  • general strike — a mass strike in all or many trades and industries in a section or in all parts of a country.
  • 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.
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • geochronologic — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • gerald sussman — (person)   (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
  • german measles — rubella.
  • gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
  • gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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