14-letter words containing t, r, i, g, e
- gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
- gerontological — Of or pertaining to gerontology.
- gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
- gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
- 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.
- getting on for — Getting on for means the same as nearly.
- gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
- ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
- giant anteater — a large, narrow-bodied anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, having a long, tapering snout and extensile tongue, powerful front claws, and a shaggy gray coat marked with a conspicuous black band.
- giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
- gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- 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.
- goitrogenicity — the potential to cause goitre
- good-time girl — a young woman whose chief concern is seeking pleasure and having fun
- gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
- grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
- graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
- gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
- grease-stained — stained with grease marks
- great firewall — a system that prevents access to websites deemed undesirable by the government of the People's Republic of China
- great kiskadee — any of several American flycatchers of the genus Pitangus, especially P. sulphuratus (great kiskadee) ranging from the southwest U.S. to Argentina and noted for their loud calls and aggressive nature.
- 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."
- 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.
- greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
- 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
- grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
- group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
- group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
- group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- guest services — Guest services at a hotel are the services, amenities and help that the hotel provides for its guests.
- guiana current — an ocean current flowing northwest along the northeast coast of South America.
- guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
- guinea current — an ocean current flowing E along the Guinea coast of W Africa.