14-letter words containing a, d, e, m
- swamp milkweed — a coarse milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, growing in swampy places from eastern North America to Colorado, having ball-like clusters of rose-purple flowers.
- syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
- 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.
- tandem trailer — Also called double-bottom, double-trailer truck, tandem. a very long rig consisting of a tractor pulling two trailers hooked up one behind another.
- tatterdemalion — a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
- tax adjustment — a change to the amount of tax owed by a company or individual
- temporary duty — duty of limited duration performed with an organization other than the one to which a person is normally attached or assigned. Abbreviation: TDY.
- terms of trade — the ratio of export prices to import prices. It measures a nation's trading position, which improves when export prices rise faster or fall slower than import prices
- texas hold 'em — a popular variety of poker in which each player can use any or all of five shared cards in combination with either or both of two private cards to form the best possible hand of five cards
- the mujaheddin — (in Afghanistan and Iran) fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas; in Afghanistan in 1992 the mujaheddin overthrew the government but were unable to agree on a constitution due to factional conflict and in 1996 Taliban forces seized power
- 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.
- time and again — frequently
- trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
- traffic-jammed — jam1 (def 16).
- trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
- tridimensional — having three dimensions.
- triiodomethane — iodoform.
- turn on a dime — change direction quickly
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
- un-manipulated — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- unacademically — in an unacademic manner
- unacclimatized — not acclimatized, accustomed, or adapted to
- unaccommodated — not accommodated; not adapted.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- unadministered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- uncommunicated — that has not been communicated
- uncontaminated — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- uncontemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- understatement — the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.
- undeterminable — capable of being determined.
- undiminishable — unable to be diminished
- undomesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- unhandsomeness — unattractiveness
- unidimensional — one-dimensional.
- unmanufactured — (of a product, commodity, etc) not manufactured
- unmaterialised — not materialised
- unmaterialized — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- unmatriculated — (of a student) not enrolled in a college, university, or similar institution
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unpremeditated — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
- unromanticized — not romantic
- unsystematized — not systematized or arranged in a system
- Ústí nad labem — a port in the Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: textile and chemical industries. Pop: 95 000 (2005 est)
- vacuum residue — Vacuum residue is the substance which is obtained by vacuum distillation (= a process of separating substances by reducing pressure to less than atmospheric pressure).
- value judgment — an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.