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