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

  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
  • solids recycle — Solids recycle is the return of solids to a liquid-solid operation so that they can be processed or used again.
  • standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
  • stanley dancer — Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
  • steel industry — production of steel
  • steely-hearted — hard-hearted
  • strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
  • street orderly — street cleaner.
  • strong-eye dog — a dog trained to control sheep by its gaze
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • tank destroyer — a high-speed, self-propelled, armored combat vehicle with antitank cannon.
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • temporary duty — duty of limited duration performed with an organization other than the one to which a person is normally attached or assigned. Abbreviation: TDY.
  • terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • tetraethyllead — a colorless, oily, water-insoluble, poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5) 4 Pb, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
  • the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
  • the upper body — the part of the body above the waist
  • the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
  • the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
  • theory of mind — Psychology, Philosophy. the ability to interpret one’s own and other people’s mental and emotional states, understanding that each person has unique motives, perspectives, etc.: People with autism seem to lack theory of mind. Abbreviation: ToM, TOM.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
  • uncontrolledly — in an uncontrolled manner
  • uncrystallized — lacking a final form
  • undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • under-employed — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
  • undersecretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
  • understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
  • unpretendingly — without pretence
  • unrestrictedly — in an unrestricted manner
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