14-letter words containing a, d, r, m
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
- traditionalism — adherence to tradition as authority, especially in matters of religion.
- traffic-jammed — jam1 (def 16).
- transom window — a window divided by a transom.
- trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
- tridimensional — having three dimensions.
- triiodomethane — iodoform.
- turn on a dime — change direction quickly
- umbilical cord — Anatomy. a cord or funicle connecting the embryo or fetus with the placenta of the mother and transporting nourishment from the mother and wastes from the fetus.
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
- unadministered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- 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.
- undramatically — in an undramatic manner
- 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
- uranium dating — a method of dating archaeological or geological specimens by determining the decay activity of the uranium in a given sample.
- 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).
- war department — the department of the federal government that, from 1789 until 1947, was responsible for defense and the military establishment: in 1947 it became the Department of the Army, which became part of the Department of Defense when it was established in 1949.
- ward cunnigham — (person) The creator of the first wiki.
- windmill grass — finger grass.
- wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
- word formation — the formation of words, for example by adding prefixes or suffixes to roots
- world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world
- young marrieds — young married people