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14-letter words containing t, o, r, s, i

  • formosa strait — an arm of the Pacific Ocean between China and Taiwan, connecting the East and South China Seas.
  • forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
  • fortifications — Plural form of fortification.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • 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.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
  • franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
  • fraternisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fraternization.
  • free-associate — to engage in free association.
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • g-strophanthin — ouabain.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • garrison state — a state in which military matters dominate economic and political life.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • generalisation — The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
  • geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
  • gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
  • good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
  • grangerisation — 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.
  • gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • hair extension — attached length of hair
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • harpsichordist — One who plays the harpsichord.
  • harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
  • heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
  • health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
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