14-letter words containing d, e, c, a, g, r
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- 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.
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- 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
- 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.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- noncardiogenic — Not cardiogenic.
- parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
- 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 changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.
- record-changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.
- 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
- sacred college — the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
- scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
- scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
- 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.
- 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
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- 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.
- warning device — alarm or danger signal
- wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.