14-letter words containing d, e, g, l
- single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
- single density — a disk with the normal capacity for storage
- single-engined — (of an aircraft) having only one engine
- single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
- slide magazine — a piece of equipment that holds slides and pushes them into a projector
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- soldering iron — an instrument for melting and applying solder.
- solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
- spangled glass — an American art glass having flakes of mica in a layer of clear glass flashed with colored glass.
- spellbindingly — in a spellbinding manner
- spindle-legged — (used with a plural verb) long, thin legs.
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
- sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
- the lesser dog — the constellation Canis Minor
- the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
- 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
- threaded glass — glass decorated with a pattern produced by variegated glass filaments.
- to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
- trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
- twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
- unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
- under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- underutilizing — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unpretendingly — without pretence
- unyieldingness — the quality or state of being unyielding
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- value judgment — an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.
- vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
- vegetable-gold — Also called vegetable gold. a crocus, Crocus sativus, having showy purple flowers.
- 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
- venus's girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
- venus's-girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- well-regulated — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- world language — a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
- wrangel island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
- wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
- yard-long bean — asparagus bean.
- yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.