14-letter words containing s, i, e, g, c
- garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
- garlic sausage — sausage meat flavoured with garlic
- gascoyne-cecil — Robert Arthur Talbot [tawl-buh t] /ˈtɔl bət/ (Show IPA), 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Salisbury (def 1).
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- gaussian curve — normal curve.
- genie services — GE Information Services
- geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- georges cuvier — Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert [zhawrzh ley-aw-pawld krey-tyan frey-dey-reek da-gaw-ber] /ʒɔrʒ leɪ ɔˈpɔld kreɪˈtyɛ̃ freɪ deɪˈrik da gɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1769–1832, French naturalist: pioneer in the fields of paleontology and comparative anatomy.
- gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
- give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- glycogenolysis — (biochemistry) The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate.
- golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
- grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
- grammaticaster — (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- 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.
- grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
- guest services — Guest services at a hotel are the services, amenities and help that the hotel provides for its guests.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- 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.
- gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
- heiligenschein — a ring of light around the shadow cast by a person's head, especially on a dewy, sunlit lawn, caused by reflection and diffraction of light rays; halo.
- hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
- home schooling — Home schooling is the practice of educating your child at home rather than in a school.
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
- in high places — People in high places are people who have powerful and influential positions in a government, society, or organization.
- incongruencies — Plural form of incongruency.
- insignificance — the quality or condition of being insignificant; lack of importance or consequence.
- intelligencers — Plural form of intelligencer.
- intransigeance — intransigence
- jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
- kegel exercise — Often, Kegel exercises. exercise performed to strengthen the pubococcygeus and other muscles of the pelvic floor, in order to control incontinence, improve sexual response, etc.
- king's counsel — a body of barristers of a higher status who are specially appointed to be the crown's counsel, and who are permitted to plead inside the bar in the court.
- kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
- legalistically — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- level crossing — grade crossing.
- lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.