14-letter words containing t, g, r, o
- frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
- frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
- g-strophanthin — ouabain.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
- gamma-carotene — one of the forms of the pigment carotene
- garrison state — a state in which military matters dominate economic and political life.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- generalisation — The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
- generation gap — a lack of communication between one generation and another, especially between young people and their parents, brought about by differences of tastes, values, outlook, etc.
- generationally — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- gentrification — the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
- geochronometry — the determination of the absolute age of earth materials, as by radiometric dating.
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
- geometric pace — a modern form of a Roman pace, a measure of length taken as 5 feet
- geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
- george calvert — Charles (3rd Baron Baltimore) 1637–1715, English colonial administrator in America: governor (1661–75) and proprietor (1675–89) of Maryland (grandson of George Calvert).
- george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
- geothermometer — a thermometer for measuring temperatures below the surface of the earth
- germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
- gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
- gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
- gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
- get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
- get through to — reach: on phone
- get/go to work — If you get to work, go to work, or set to work on a job, task, or problem, you start doing it or dealing with it.
- getting on for — Getting on for means the same as nearly.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- 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.
- giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
- give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
- give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
- glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
- glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- 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.
- glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.