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15-letter words containing a, g, r, d

  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • to grab hold of — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
  • tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
  • trade agreement — commercial treaty between nations
  • trading account — an account similar to a traditional bank account, holding cash and securities, and administered by an investment dealer
  • trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets
  • trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
  • trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
  • trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
  • training ground — an area where people prepare for sporting competitions, with activities primarily concentrating on skills and fitness
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • unchoreographed — not choreographed; not pre-arranged or pre-prepared; unplanned
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • untransmigrated — not transmigrated; not transferred or caused to be transferred
  • uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
  • vaginal dryness — abnormal dryness of the vagina, caused by lack of natural lubrication
  • variant reading — an alternative interpretation of a word in a text to the one generally accepted
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • voltage divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
  • voronoi diagram — (mathematics, graphics)   (Or "Voronoi tessellation", "Voronoi decomposition", "Dirichlet tessellation", After Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy) For a set S of points in a Euclidean space, the partition Vor(S) of the plane into the voronoi polygons associated with the members of S, where each polygon is defined by the set of points nearer to some given point in S than to any other point in S. The Voronoi diagram is the dual of the Delaunay triangulation of S.
  • waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • wedding planner — sb hired to organize a marriage day
  • well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
  • wheatgerm bread — bread made with wheat germ
  • with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • working drawing — an accurately measured and detailed drawing of a structure, machine, etc., or of any part of one, used as a guide to workers in constructing it.
  • working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
  • wrongheadedness — The state of being wrongheaded.
  • x-ray diagnosis — diagnosis by means of an X-ray
  • xeroradiography — an x-ray utilizing a specially coated plate that allows a picture to be developed without the use of liquid chemicals.
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