14-letter words containing r, o, t, g
- electroplating — Coat (a metal object) by electrolytic deposition with chromium, silver, or another metal.
- electrosurgery — Surgery using a high-frequency electric current to heat and so cut tissue with great precision.
- electrowinning — a means of extracting metal from ore using electrolysis
- emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
- enterogastrone — a hormone liberated by the upper intestinal mucosa when stimulated by fat: reduces peristalsis and secretion in the stomach
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
- exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
- export manager — a person who is responsible for running the export department of a business organization
- extension ring — a spacer element that can be fixed between the camera body and the lens to increase the distance between film and lens and allow closer focus than would be possible without it
- exterior angle — an angle of a polygon contained between one side extended and the adjacent side
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- fingerpointing — Alternative form of finger-pointing.
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
- flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
- flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.
- flight officer — an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, having a rank equivalent to that of a warrant officer junior grade.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- 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.
- follow through — the act of following.
- follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
- food rationing — the practice of having a fixed allowance of food, esp a statutory one for civilians in time of scarcity or soldiers in time of war
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- foot passenger — sb travelling on a boat without a car
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- 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.
- forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- freezing point — the temperature at which a liquid freezes: The freezing point of water is 32°F, 0°C.