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14-letter words containing d, e, u, t, r, a

  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • 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
  • the upper hand — If you have the upper hand in a situation, you have more power than the other people involved and can make decisions about what happens.
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • third quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.
  • thought-reader — someone who can read minds or psychically know others' thoughts
  • 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.
  • tour-de-france — a bicycle touring race, held over a period of 21 days: it covers about 2500 miles (4000 km) in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
  • trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
  • trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
  • trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
  • trade unionist — a member of a trade union.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • tried and true — tested and found to be reliable or workable.
  • tried-and-true — tested and found to be reliable or workable.
  • 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.
  • turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
  • turn on a dime — change direction quickly
  • ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
  • ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
  • ultracrepidate — to go beyond one's scope or province, esp to criticize beyond one's sphere of knowledge
  • umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
  • un-apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
  • un-depreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
  • un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • unacculturated — (of a person or group) not acculturated or assimilated
  • unadministered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
  • unappropriated — not set apart or voted for some purpose or use, as money, revenues, etc.
  • unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
  • uncertificated — a document serving as evidence or as written testimony, as of status, qualifications, privileges, or the truth of something.
  • unconcentrated — applied with all one's attention, energy, etc.: their concentrated efforts to win the election.
  • unconfederated — not allied to a confederation or joined in confederacy
  • uncontradicted — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
  • uncorroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
  • 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
  • undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
  • under contract — If you are under contract to someone, you have signed a contract agreeing to work for them, and for no-one else, during a fixed period of time.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • under-training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
  • undereducation — to educate too little or poorly.
  • undergraduette — a female undergraduate
  • underinflation — the lack of sufficient air pressure
  • underpopulated — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
  • undersaturated — unsaturated (def 2).
  • undersecretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
  • understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
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