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14-letter words containing c, e, r, d, i, g

  • greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
  • grid reference — geographical co-ordinates
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
  • highly charged — electrical
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • indian grackle — a starling, Gracula religiosa, of S and SE Asia: a popular cage bird because of its ability to talk
  • itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • lattice girder — a trusslike girder having the upper and lower chords connected by latticing.
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
  • nice/good work — You can say to someone 'nice work' or 'good work' in order to thank or praise them for doing something well or quickly.
  • non-discerning — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
  • noncardiogenic — Not cardiogenic.
  • overindulgence — excessive indulgence
  • parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • periodic group — (database)   (PE) Groups of logically related fields which occur multiple times within a group. Periodic groups are a non-relational technique. An example of a PE would be for storing the history of a person's name changes, where name was kept in logically related fields such as surname, first name and middle name - with the person having changed their name more than once.
  • photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • ranch dressing — seasoned mayonnaise sauce
  • reading notice — a short advertisement placed at the bottom of a column, as on the front page of a newspaper, and often set in the same print as other matter.
  • record-keeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • recording head — the part of a tape recorder that records a sound source by converting the electrical analog of the sound, as from a microphone, into a magnetic signal for storage on magnetic tape.
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
  • screen editing — the act or process of editing text on screen
  • screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
  • second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • self-directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
  • stage director — a person who directs a theatrical production.
  • stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • 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)
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
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