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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.
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