14-letter words containing a, n, d, r, i
- upper sideband — the frequency band above the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- uranium dating — a method of dating archaeological or geological specimens by determining the decay activity of the uranium in a given sample.
- urban district — a minor administrative division in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, with local self-government by a district council, but lacking the charter of a borough.
- url forwarding — URL redirection
- ursine dasyure — Tasmanian devil.
- user-definable — (of a facility on a computer) that can be defined or varied by the user
- valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
- valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
- valetudinarian — an invalid.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
- 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
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
- 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.
- ward cunnigham — (person) The creator of the first wiki.
- warning device — alarm or danger signal
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
- weather window — a limited interval when weather conditions can be expected to be suitable for a particular project, such as laying offshore pipelines, reaching a high mountain summit, launching a satellite, etc
- welfare island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- wind generator — an electric generator situated on a tower and driven by the force of wind on blades or a rotor.
- wind indicator — a large weather vane used at airports to indicate wind direction.
- windmill grass — finger grass.
- window cleaner — someone that cleans windows for a living
- windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
- wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
- winning hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
- word formation — the formation of words, for example by adding prefixes or suffixes to roots
- world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world
- wrangel island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)
- xanthosiderite — a mineral, hydrous iron oxide, Fe 2 O 3 ⋅2H 2 O.
- young marrieds — young married people