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14-letter words containing t, i, n, g

  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
  • gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
  • gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
  • git-up-and-git — get-up-and-go.
  • 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.
  • given that sth — If you say given that something is the case, you mean taking that fact into account.
  • 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)
  • globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
  • glottalisation — Alternative spelling of glottalization.
  • glottalization — (linguistics) The act or process of constricting or closing the glottis during the production of a speech sound that normally does not involve such constriction.
  • glycogenolytic — Of, pertaining to, or capable of glycogenolysis, the catabolism of glycogen.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • go in the tank — to lose or fail badly or on purpose
  • go into detail — elaborate, recount more fully
  • go night-night — go night-night, Baby Talk. to go to bed or to sleep.
  • go-cart racing — the sport of riding on karts
  • goitrogenicity — the potential to cause goitre
  • 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.
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
  • good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
  • goodnight kiss — a kiss given to a person before going home or going to sleep
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
  • grammaticizing — Present participle of grammaticize.
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
  • grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
  • grangerisation — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
  • grangerization — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
  • graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
  • gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • grease-stained — stained with grease marks
  • great plantain — a N temperate plant, Plantago major, which has a rosette of broad leaves and a slender spike of small greenish flowers: family Plantaginaceae
  • great renaming — (history)   The flag day in 1986 on which all of the non-local groups on the Usenet had their names changed from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme. Used especially in discussing the history of newsgroup names. "The oldest sources group is comp.sources.misc; before the Great Renaming, it was net.sources."
  • green verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
  • greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
  • 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.
  • gregorian tone — a plainsong melody
  • greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
  • grid variation — the angle, at any point on the surface of the earth, between the magnetic and true meridians passing through that point.
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