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14-letter words containing a, c, o, r, d, t

  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • scorched earth — military policy: destroying enemy crops
  • serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
  • shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
  • slate-coloured — like slate in colour
  • sodium citrate — a white, crystalline or granular, water-soluble, odorless solid, Na 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, having a cool, saline taste: used in photography, in soft drinks, and in medicine chiefly to prevent the coagulation of blood.
  • spermatic cord — the cord by which a testis is suspended in the scrotum, containing the vas deferens and the blood vessels and nerves of the testis.
  • stage director — a person who directs a theatrical production.
  • standard score — the test score of a participant expressed as the deviation of the score from the mean score of the sample in units of standard deviation.
  • 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
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
  • terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • 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.
  • to cut and run — If someone cuts and runs in a difficult situation, they try to escape from it quickly and gain an advantage for themselves, rather than deal with the situation in a responsible way.
  • torpedo attack — an attack launched from aircraft, ships, or submarines, using a bomb that is shaped like a tube and travels under water
  • tour-de-france — a bicycle touring race, held over a period of 21 days: it covers about 2500 miles (4000 km) in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
  • transductional — of or relating to transduction
  • trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
  • 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.
  • unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
  • unconcentrated — applied with all one's attention, energy, etc.: their concentrated efforts to win the election.
  • unconfederated — not allied to a confederation or joined in confederacy
  • uncontradicted — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
  • uncorroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
  • under contract — If you are under contract to someone, you have signed a contract agreeing to work for them, and for no-one else, during a fixed period of time.
  • undereducation — to educate too little or poorly.
  • 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.
  • unreciprocated — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • unromanticized — not romantic
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
  • wind indicator — a large weather vane used at airports to indicate wind direction.
  • windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
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