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14-letter words containing t, r, a, m

  • foot patrolman — a policeman assigned to patrol a particular area on foot
  • forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
  • format-fortran — Fortran Matrix Abstraction Technique Fortran
  • formosa strait — an arm of the Pacific Ocean between China and Taiwan, connecting the East and South China Seas.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
  • forward market — future commodities trading
  • fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
  • fragmentedness — The quality of being fragmented.
  • fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
  • free-marketeer — A free-marketeer is someone, especially a politician, who thinks market forces should control the economy.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
  • friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes.
  • futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • games mistress — a woman who teaches games and sports in a school
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • gamma-carotene — one of the forms of the pigment carotene
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • genetic marker — any distinct inheritable indicator of identity and ancestry.
  • 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
  • germanomethane — (chemistry) germanium tetrahydride.
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • 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.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
  • government man — (in the 19th century) a convict
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • grammaticality — the state or quality of being grammatical.
  • grammaticalize — to convert (a content word or part of one) into a functor, as in using OE līc, “body,” as a suffix in adjectives and adverbs, such as OE frēondlīc, “friendly.”.
  • grammaticaster — (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
  • grammaticizing — Present participle of grammaticize.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • 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."
  • great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • gum tragacanth — tragacanth.
  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • haemocytometer — an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope
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