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14-letter words containing d, i, a, t

  • reindoctrinate — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • res adjudicata — res judicata.
  • resident alien — an alien who has legally established residence in the U.S.
  • restrainedness — the state or quality of being restrained
  • retreaded tire — A retreaded tire is a used tire with a new tread fixed to it.
  • retrogradation — backward movement.
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • richard trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
  • ride at anchor — to be anchored
  • ride the rails — Someone who rides the rails travels by train, especially over a long period of time and without buying a ticket.
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • right-hand man — an indispensable or invaluable assistant; right hand.
  • rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
  • road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • rural district — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and Northern Ireland from 1898 to 1973) a rural division of a county
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
  • safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
  • saint benedict — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
  • saint gotthard — a mountain range in S Switzerland; a part of the Alps; highest peak, 10,490 feet (3195 meters).
  • sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • sat-cit-ananda — reality, seen through the discovery of Brahman as sat or ultimate being, cit or pure consciousness, and ananda or perfect bliss.
  • satellite dish — dish (def 8).
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • 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
  • seaside resort — coastal holiday town
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-dedicated — wholly committed to something, as to an ideal, political cause, or personal goal: a dedicated artist.
  • self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
  • self-initiated — initiated or begun by oneself.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-satisfied — feeling or showing satisfaction with oneself.
  • semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
  • semi-automated — partially automated.
  • serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
  • sesquipedality — given to using long words.
  • shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
  • shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
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