14-letter words containing a, c, d, i, n, t
- shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
- sick and tired — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
- solidification — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
- standard pitch — concert pitch
- state medicine — socialized medicine.
- stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
- stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
- stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
- tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
- tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thick and fast — If things happen thick and fast, they happen very quickly and in large numbers.
- thick and thin — all manner of difficulties
- tracking radar — a radar system emitting a narrow beam which oscillates about the target, thus compensating for abrupt changes of direction
- trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
- trade-in price — the price of a new article when a used article is given in part payment
- trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
- traffic island — a raised or marked-off area between lanes of a roadway, used by pedestrians to get out of the flow of traffic, as a place for traffic signals, for separating lanes, etc.
- traffic warden — officer who monitors parking, etc.
- transductional — of or relating to transduction
- trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
- tricyanic acid — cyanuric acid.
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- turn indicator — a flight instrument that indicates the angular rate of turn of an aircraft about its vertical axis.
- ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
- un-adjudicated — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- un-depreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
- un-dialectical — dialectic.
- un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- unaccidentally — happening by chance or accident; not planned; unexpected: an accidental meeting.
- unacclimatized — not acclimatized, accustomed, or adapted to
- uncertificated — a document serving as evidence or as written testimony, as of status, qualifications, privileges, or the truth of something.
- uncommunicated — that has not been communicated
- unconsolidated — brought together into a single whole.
- uncontaminated — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- uncontradicted — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- uncredentialed — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- uncrystallized — lacking a final form
- undecidability — the quality of being undecidable
- under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
- undereducation — to educate too little or poorly.
- undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
- undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
- undomesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- undramatically — in an undramatic manner
- unidirectional — operating or moving in one direction only; not changing direction: a unidirectional flow.