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14-letter words containing a, g, e, d, l

  • old low german — the language of the German lowlands before c1100. Abbreviation: OLG.
  • overhead light — a light which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
  • palaeopedology — the study of ancient soils
  • parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • payday lending — the practice of offering short-term loans at high rates of interest, on the agreement that the borrower will pay back the loan when he or she next receives a wage or salary
  • perineal gland — one of a pair of glands that are situated near the anus in some mammals and secrete an odorous substance
  • plagal cadence — a cadence in which the chord of the tonic is preceded by that of the subdominant.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
  • radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
  • railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
  • realized gains — Realized gains are gains which have been made from the sale of an asset.
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
  • sacred college — the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
  • sailing orders — the final orders given to a ship's commander before sailing, concerning matters such as time of departure, destination, etc
  • salad dressing — a sauce for a salad, usually with a base of oil and vinegar or of mayonnaise.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
  • slide magazine — a piece of equipment that holds slides and pushes them into a projector
  • spangled glass — an American art glass having flakes of mica in a layer of clear glass flashed with colored glass.
  • straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
  • sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • 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)
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • threaded glass — glass decorated with a pattern produced by variegated glass filaments.
  • trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
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