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14-letter words containing a, t, r, i, e, d

  • 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
  • striped marlin — a marlin, Tetrapturus audax, of the Pacific Ocean, having the sides of the body marked with dark blue vertical stripes, valued for sport and food.
  • structuralized — to form into or make part of a structure.
  • studio theatre — a small theatre within which the stage and seating can usually be rearranged
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • superinsulated — highly insulated
  • tabes dorsalis — syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.
  • take in stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
  • tandem trailer — Also called double-bottom, double-trailer truck, tandem. a very long rig consisting of a tractor pulling two trailers hooked up one behind another.
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • tatterdemalion — a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • 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
  • terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
  • the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
  • the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • 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.
  • third quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • toilet trained — If a child is toilet trained, he or she has learned to use the toilet.
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • trade barriers — any regulation or policy that restricts international trade, especially tariffs, quotas, etc.
  • trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
  • trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
  • trade unionist — a member of a trade union.
  • trade-in price — the price of a new article when a used article is given in part payment
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • trading estate — industrial area
  • 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.
  • traditionalize — to make traditional: to traditionalize family reunions.
  • traffic warden — officer who monitors parking, etc.
  • traffic-jammed — jam1 (def 16).
  • transdniestria — Transnistria
  • transistorized — (of a device) equipped with a transistor
  • trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
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