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14-letter words containing a, c, i, d, r, n

  • social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
  • standard pitch — concert pitch
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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-depreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
  • un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • uncertificated — a document serving as evidence or as written testimony, as of status, qualifications, privileges, or the truth of something.
  • 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
  • undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • undereducation — to educate too little or poorly.
  • underinsurance — insurance purchased against damage or loss of property in an amount less than its true value, sometimes bought intentionally by the insured with full knowledge of the risk.
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
  • undramatically — in an undramatic manner
  • unidirectional — operating or moving in one direction only; not changing direction: a unidirectional flow.
  • unincorporated — not chartered as a corporation; lacking the powers and immunities of a corporate enterprise: an unincorporated business.
  • unmatriculated — (of a student) not enrolled in a college, university, or similar institution
  • unprecipitated — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • unreciprocated — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • unromanticized — not romantic
  • upper canadian — a native or inhabitant of Ontario.
  • urban district — a minor administrative division in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, with local self-government by a district council, but lacking the charter of a borough.
  • valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
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