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

  • teeth grinding — habitual, purposeless clenching and grinding of the teeth, especially during sleep.
  • tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • 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 gender gap — the difference in the attitudes, behaviour, abilities, etc, of men and women, or boys and girls
  • 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 lesser dog — the constellation Canis Minor
  • the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
  • thought-reader — someone who can read minds or psychically know others' thoughts
  • 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.
  • through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
  • thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
  • to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
  • to some degree — to a certain extent
  • to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • 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.
  • trudgen stroke — a swimming stroke in which a double overarm motion and a scissors kick are used
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • turbo debugger — (programming)   A source-level debugger designed for use with Borland and other compilers.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
  • under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
  • under-training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
  • underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
  • undergraduette — a female undergraduate
  • underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • understrapping — subordinate or inferior
  • underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
  • underutilizing — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • ungroundedness — the state of being without basis
  • uninterrogated — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
  • unpretendingly — without pretence
  • unrefrigerated — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
  • unstrengthened — not strengthened or reinforced; not given additional strength
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
  • vat-registered — (of a company or individual) registered as being liable to pay VAT
  • 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.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
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