14-letter words containing a, i, d, e, c
- straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
- structuralized — to form into or make part of a structure.
- suicide attack — a terrorist attack which someone undertakes knowing that he or she will die in the attack
- suicide clause — a clause in a life-insurance policy stating that the insurer is required to pay only the reserve or the total premiums paid if the policyholder should commit suicide within a stated period.
- sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
- tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
- tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
- tax-deductible — noting an item the value or cost of which is deductible from the gross amount on which a tax is calculated.
- teacher's aide — A teacher's aide is a person who helps a teacher in a school classroom but who is not a qualified teacher.
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thiacetic acid — thioacetic acid.
- tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
- trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
- trade-in price — the price of a new article when a used article is given in part payment
- trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
- traffic warden — officer who monitors parking, etc.
- traffic-jammed — jam1 (def 16).
- trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
- ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
- ultracrepidate — to go beyond one's scope or province, esp to criticize beyond one's sphere of knowledge
- un-adjudicated — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- un-depreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
- un-dialectical — dialectic.
- unacademically — in an unacademic manner
- unaccidentally — happening by chance or accident; not planned; unexpected: an accidental meeting.
- unacclimatized — not acclimatized, accustomed, or adapted to
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- uncertificated — a document serving as evidence or as written testimony, as of status, qualifications, privileges, or the truth of something.
- uncommunicated — that has not been communicated
- unconsolidated — brought together into a single whole.
- uncontaminated — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- uncontradicted — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- uncredentialed — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- uncrystallized — lacking a final form
- undecidability — the quality of being undecidable
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
- undereducation — to educate too little or poorly.
- underinsurance — insurance purchased against damage or loss of property in an amount less than its true value, sometimes bought intentionally by the insured with full knowledge of the risk.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- undistractedly — in an undistracted manner