14-letter words containing a, n, g, s, t, r
- chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
- circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
- color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross training — training in two or more sports to improve performance, esp on one's main sport
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- crystal gazing — the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- degenerateness — The state or quality of being degenerate.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- deregistration — The process of which an employee is removed from work registrant status.
- design pattern — (programming) A description of an object-oriented design technique which names, abstracts and identifies aspects of a design structure that are useful for creating an object-oriented design. The design pattern identifies classes and instances, their roles, collaborations and responsibilities. Each design pattern focuses on a particular object-oriented design problem or issue. It describes when it applies, whether it can be applied in the presence of other design constraints, and the consequences and trade-offs of its use.
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- disaggregating — Present participle of disaggregate.
- disaggregation — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discriminating — to make or constitute a distinction in or between; differentiate: a mark that discriminates the original from the copy.
- disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
- disintegrating — Present participle of disintegrate.
- disintegration — the act or process of disintegrating.
- disintegrative — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disintegrators — Plural form of disintegrator.
- disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
- disinthralling — the act of freedom from thraldom
- disorientating — to disorient.
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II