14-letter words containing d, a, r, n, e, l
- sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
- skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
- slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
- slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
- slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
- social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
- solar calendar — a calendar whose dates are based on the position of the earth and its proximity to the sun
- spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
- standard model — a mathematical description of the elementary particles of matter and the fundamental forces by which they interact and behave; a model combining electromagnetic and weak forces.
- stanley dancer — Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
- stewart island — one of the islands of New Zealand, S of South Island. 670 sq. mi. (1735 sq. km).
- 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.
- sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
- superinsulated — highly insulated
- 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.
- tatterdemalion — a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
- 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
- to lend an ear — If you lend an ear to someone or their problems, you listen to them carefully and sympathetically.
- toilet trained — If a child is toilet trained, he or she has learned to use the toilet.
- trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
- trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
- traditionalize — to make traditional: to traditionalize family reunions.
- transcendental — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
- travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
- tridimensional — having three dimensions.
- ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
- unacculturated — (of a person or group) not acculturated or assimilated
- uncredentialed — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- uncrystallized — lacking a final form
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
- underinflation — the lack of sufficient air pressure
- underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- underpopulated — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
- underqualified — having the qualities, accomplishments, etc., that fit a person for some function, office, or the like.
- understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- undeterminable — capable of being determined.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
- undulant fever — brucellosis.
- unidirectional — operating or moving in one direction only; not changing direction: a unidirectional flow.
- unmaterialised — not materialised