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

  • lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
  • maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
  • masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
  • meteorologists — Plural form of meteorologist.
  • mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
  • multireligious — belonging to or following more than one religion
  • neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • nielsen rating — an estimate of the total number of viewers for a particular television program, expressed as a percentage of the total number of viewers whose television sets are on at the time and based on a monitoring of the sets of a preselected sample of viewers.
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
  • osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
  • osmoregulatory — Of or pertaining to osmoregulation.
  • overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
  • passenger list — register of all travellers on board
  • pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
  • porter's lodge — a room near the entrance of a public building such as a college, which is occupied by the porter
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • power struggle — fight to take control
  • pressing plant — a manufacturing plant where phonograph records are produced by pressing in a mold or by stamping.
  • progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.
  • prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
  • rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
  • reassimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
  • registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
  • rolling stones — the. British rock group (formed 1962): comprising Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (born 1943; guitar, vocals), Brian Jones (1942–69; guitar), Charlie Watts (born 1941; drums), Bill Wyman (born 1936; bass guitar; now retired), and subsequently Mick Taylor (born 1948; guitar; with the group 1969–74) and Ron Wood (born 1947; guitar; with the group from 1975)
  • saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
  • sales register — a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
  • self-directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
  • self-forgetful — forgetful or not thinking of one's own advantage, interest, etc.
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-operating — automatic.
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