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14-letter words containing t, r, i, g, e

  • gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
  • 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.
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
  • herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
  • herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.
  • heterographies — Plural form of heterography.
  • heterozygosity — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
  • hierogrammatic — of or relating to a hierogram
  • high priestess — the female leader of a tribe, religion, or movement; a female high priest.
  • highly trained — that has received a lot of academic or physical training
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • housing market — property trade
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hungry viewkit — (operating system, library)   A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • hyperenergetic — extremely or excessively energetic
  • hyperextending — Present participle of hyperextend.
  • hypergeometric — of or relating to operations or series that transcend ordinary geometrical operations or series
  • hyperhygienist — Being too hygienic.
  • hyperpigmented — Afflicted with hyperpigmentation.
  • hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
  • hypertrophying — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
  • 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.
  • imparidigitate — having an odd number of fingers on each limb
  • 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 the morning — every morning
  • in the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
  • in this regard — on this point
  • index register — (processor)   A register found in some CPUs, whose contents can be added to the address operand to give the effective address. Incrementing the index register then allows the program to access the next location in memory and so on, making it very useful for working with arrays or blocks of memory. Index registers first appeared around April 1949 in the Manchester Mark I. The Mark I's index register's contents were simply added to the entire instruction, thus potentially changing the opcode (see The story of Mel)!
  • 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.
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