14-letter words containing a, g, n, t
- recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
- redintegration — the act or process of redintegrating.
- redintegrative — to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
- reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
- reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- regenerateness — the state or quality of being regenerated, regeneration
- regulator gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reorganization — the act or process of reorganizing; state of being reorganized.
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- reregistration — the act of registering.
- retail banking — banking for individual customers
- retaining wall — a wall for holding in place a mass of earth or the like, as at the edge of a terrace or excavation.
- retirement age — law: age sb stops working
- retrogradation — backward movement.
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right triangle — a triangle having a right angle (contrasted with oblique triangle).
- right-hand man — an indispensable or invaluable assistant; right hand.
- rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
- riparian right — a right, as fishing or use of water for irrigation or power, enjoyed by a person who owns riparian property.
- roentgenograph — roentgenogram.
- roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
- röntgenography — radiography
- rotating stock — Rotating stock is a system used especially in food stores and to reduce wastage, in which the oldest stock is moved to the front of shelves and new stock is added at the back.
- route flapping — flapping router
- run out of gas — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
- sagging moment — a bending moment that produces concave bending at the middle of a simple supported beam
- sailing length — a measurement of a yacht, comprising its length on the water line as well as certain measurements taken from the overhangs at bow and stern.
- saint george's — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- saint gotthard — a mountain range in S Switzerland; a part of the Alps; highest peak, 10,490 feet (3195 meters).
- sand stargazer — a fish of the family Dactyloscopidae, especially Dactyloscopus tridigitatus, of Atlantic waters from Bermuda to Brazil, having tiny, tubular eyes on top of the head, and capable of emitting electric discharges.
- sanguification — hematopoiesis.
- saratoga trunk — a type of large traveling trunk used mainly by women during the 19th century.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
- schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.