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14-letter words containing a, d, r, e

  • straight-ahead — not deviating from what is usual or expected; conventional or traditional; standard: a straight-ahead novel with a happy ending.
  • straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
  • strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
  • straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
  • streptodornase — a deoxyribonuclease, obtained from hemolytic streptococci, used in medicine for decomposing blood clots and fibrinous and purulent matter.
  • stress-related — resulting from mental or emotional strain or tension
  • striped marlin — a marlin, Tetrapturus audax, of the Pacific Ocean, having the sides of the body marked with dark blue vertical stripes, valued for sport and food.
  • structuralized — to form into or make part of a structure.
  • studio theatre — a small theatre within which the stage and seating can usually be rearranged
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • superabundance — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
  • superinsulated — highly insulated
  • supersaturated — to increase the concentration of (a solution) beyond saturation; saturate abnormally.
  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • sweet and sour — Sweet and sour is used to describe Chinese food that contains both a sweet flavour and something sharp or sour such as lemon or vinegar.
  • sweet-and-sour — cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.
  • tabes dorsalis — syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.
  • take in stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
  • 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.
  • tank destroyer — a high-speed, self-propelled, armored combat vehicle with antitank cannon.
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • tatterdemalion — a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • teacher's aide — A teacher's aide is a person who helps a teacher in a school classroom but who is not a qualified teacher.
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
  • 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.
  • tender-hearted — soft-hearted; sympathetic.
  • tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
  • 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
  • terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
  • 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.
  • tetraethyllead — a colorless, oily, water-insoluble, poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5) 4 Pb, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
  • the dead heart — the remote interior of Australia
  • the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the gender gap — the difference in the attitudes, behaviour, abilities, etc, of men and women, or boys and girls
  • the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
  • the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
  • the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
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