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14-letter words containing a, g, n, t

  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • tubal ligation — a method of permanent sterilization for women, involving the surgical sealing of the fallopian tubes to prevent the ovum from passing from the ovary to the uterus.
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
  • turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turing tar-pit — A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan M. Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A "Turing tar-pit" is any computer language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's theoretically universal but in practice, the harder you struggle to get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare bondage-and-discipline language. A tar pit is a geological occurence where subterranean tar leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of tar. Animals wandering or falling in get stuck, being unable to extricate themselves from the tar. La Brea, California, has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
  • turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • ultraenergetic — (of particles) producing exceptional levels of energy
  • un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • un-get-at-able — very difficult to get hold of or get close to
  • unappetizingly — in an unappetizing manner
  • unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
  • uncongeniality — the condition of being uncongenial
  • under-training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
  • undergraduette — a female undergraduate
  • understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • understrapping — subordinate or inferior
  • underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
  • undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
  • unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
  • unentertaining — not entertaining or amusing
  • unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
  • unflatteringly — in an unflattering manner
  • unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
  • unilluminating — not serving to instruct or give insights
  • uningratiating — not of a sort that tries to gain the approval of other people
  • uninterrogated — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
  • unintimidating — to make timid; fill with fear.
  • unintoxicating — (of a drink, wine, substance, etc) not intoxicating
  • unrefrigerated — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
  • unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
  • upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
  • uranium dating — a method of dating archaeological or geological specimens by determining the decay activity of the uranium in a given sample.
  • uterogestation — gestation in the womb, i.e. normal pregnancy
  • vacuum casting — the casting of metal within a vacuum.
  • vaginal tablet — A vaginal tablet is a tablet inserted into the vagina to treat infection.
  • value judgment — an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.
  • vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
  • vertical angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
  • vestal virgins — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • virginia stock — a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.
  • vistula lagoon — a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia
  • vital staining — the technique of treating living cells and tissues with dyes that do not immediately kill them, facilitating observation with a microscope
  • vitilitigation — contention or backbiting
  • voice training — the process of training and improving vocal ability
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