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14-letter words containing t, r, a, n, g

  • 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.
  • groote eylandt — an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of NE Australia. 950 sq. mi. (2461 sq. km).
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • guiana current — an ocean current flowing northwest along the northeast coast of South America.
  • guinea current — an ocean current flowing E along the Guinea coast of W Africa.
  • gum tragacanth — tragacanth.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • heartrendingly — In a heartrending manner.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • heat exchanger — a device for transferring the heat of one substance to another, as from the exhaust gases to the incoming air in a regenerative furnace.
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • housing market — property trade
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • hyperoxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
  • iatrogenically — In an iatrogenic manner.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • imaginary part — the coefficient b in the complex number a + bi.
  • imaginary unit — the complex number i.
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • in the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • in this regard — on this point
  • indoctrinating — Present participle of indoctrinate.
  • infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
  • infrangibility — The quality of being infrangible.
  • ingratiatingly — In an ingratiating manner.
  • inorganization — lack of organization.
  • insanely great — (Macintosh community, from Steve Jobs; also BSD Unix people via Bill Joy) Something so incredibly elegant that it is imaginable only to someone possessing the most puissant of hacker-natures.
  • integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
  • integrated day — teaching that is organized around themes, rather than separate subjects
  • integrationist — a person who believes in, supports, or works for social integration.
  • inter-regional — of or relating to a region of considerable extent; not merely local: a regional meeting of the Boy Scouts.
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
  • interdigitated — Simple past tense and past participle of interdigitate.
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