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14-letter words containing r, e, s, t, n, g

  • get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
  • ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
  • giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
  • granddaughters — Plural form of granddaughter.
  • grangerisation — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • grease-stained — stained with grease marks
  • great pyrenees — one of a breed of large dogs having a heavy, white coat, raised originally in the Pyrenees for herding sheep and as a watchdog.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • great-grandson — a grandson of one's son or daughter.
  • green strength — Foundry. the tensile strength of greensand.
  • greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
  • greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
  • grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
  • groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • housing market — property trade
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyperhygienist — Being too hygienic.
  • hyperosteogeny — excessive bone development.
  • in this regard — on this point
  • index register — (processor)   A register found in some CPUs, whose contents can be added to the address operand to give the effective address. Incrementing the index register then allows the program to access the next location in memory and so on, making it very useful for working with arrays or blocks of memory. Index registers first appeared around April 1949 in the Manchester Mark I. The Mark I's index register's contents were simply added to the entire instruction, thus potentially changing the opcode (see The story of Mel)!
  • insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
  • integrationist — a person who believes in, supports, or works for social integration.
  • intelligencers — Plural form of intelligencer.
  • 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.
  • interlanguages — Plural form of interlanguage.
  • interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
  • interrogations — Plural form of interrogation.
  • interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
  • intersegmental — of, relating to, or characterized by segments or segmentation.
  • intertriginous — (medicine) Of or relating to intertrigo.
  • intransigeance — intransigence
  • intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • king's pattern — a spoon pattern of the 19th century having a stem decorated with threads, scrolls, and shell motifs.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
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