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

  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
  • 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.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • go-cart racing — the sport of riding on karts
  • goitrogenicity — the potential to cause goitre
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
  • good afternoon — greeting
  • good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
  • gordon bennett — an exclamation of surprise
  • 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.
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
  • 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.
  • granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
  • granulopoietin — a hormone that promotes the production of white blood cells.
  • graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
  • gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • great-grandson — a grandson of one's son or daughter.
  • greater londonJack, 1876–1916, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
  • 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).
  • ground control — an airport facility that supervises the movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on ramps and taxiways.
  • groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
  • 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.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • growth hormone — any substance that stimulates or controls the growth of an organism, especially a species-specific hormone, as the human hormone somatotropin, secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. Abbreviation: GH.
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • headstrongness — The property of being headstrong, stubbornness.
  • heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
  • 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.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • housing market — property trade
  • hunting ground — a section or area for hunting game.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hyperosteogeny — excessive bone development.
  • hyperoxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
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