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

  • 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.
  • 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).
  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
  • roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
  • roller bearing — a bearing consisting of cylindrical or tapered rollers running between races in two concentric rings, one of which is mounted on a rotating or oscillating part, as a shaft.
  • roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
  • rolling launch — the process of introducing a new product into a market gradually
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
  • running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
  • 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.
  • sailing dinghy — a small boat or dinghy with a single mast, used esp for recreational sailing
  • 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.
  • sailing orders — the final orders given to a ship's commander before sailing, concerning matters such as time of departure, destination, etc
  • salad dressing — a sauce for a salad, usually with a base of oil and vinegar or of mayonnaise.
  • sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
  • sales planning — the business activity of estimating future sales of products or services and setting sales targets
  • salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • salle a manger — a dining room.
  • salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • sandwich glass — any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
  • scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
  • scrimmage line — line of scrimmage.
  • segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-annealing — denoting certain metals, such as lead, tin, and zinc, that recrystallize at air temperatures and so may be cold-worked without strain-hardening
  • self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-financing — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • selling climax — a brief, abrupt decline in stock prices that is succeeded by a rally.
  • selling plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
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