14-letter words containing a, g, r, p
- telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
- telephotograph — a photograph taken with a telephoto lens.
- thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
- thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
- the gender gap — the difference in the attitudes, behaviour, abilities, etc, of men and women, or boys and girls
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- toga praetexta — (in ancient Rome) a toga with a broad purple border worn by certain magistrates and priests and by boys until they assumed the toga virilis
- topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
- trading period — A trading period is a set length of time, usually a number of weeks, months, quarters, or years, in which sales are measured and compared to previous periods.
- trailing phlox — a prostrate plant, Phlox nivalis, of the southeastern U.S., having pink or white flowers.
- train-spotting — (of a train enthusiast) the activity of going to train stations and recording the numbers of trains
- training pants — briefs or shorts of cotton with added thickness, worn by a young child during toilet training.
- training plane — a plane used for training pilots, esp in the military
- transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
- triple glazing — three layers of glass in windows or doors
- tropologically — in a way which uses figurative language
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- 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.
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- tutorial group — a small grouping of students given intensive tuition by a tutor
- unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
- up and running — active, in operation
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- 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.
- urban planning — the planning and design of urban areas
- vector graphic — a computer image that is stored in memory as lines rather than a series of dots, allowing it to be rotated or proportionally scaled.
- vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
- vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
- waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- watering place — British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
- whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- working papers — documents permitting employment
- wrapping paper — heavy paper used for wrapping packages, parcels, etc.
- xeroradiograph — an x-ray utilizing a specially coated plate that allows a picture to be developed without the use of liquid chemicals.
- xylopyrography — the technique of making a picture or design on wood using a hot iron or another heated instrument
- xylotypography — a type of printing using wooden blocks
- zygosporangium — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.