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

  • sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • 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
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • tracking radar — a radar system emitting a narrow beam which oscillates about the target, thus compensating for abrupt changes of direction
  • 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 nation — a nation that trades with other countries
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • 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.
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • uninterrogated — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
  • unrefrigerated — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
  • up and running — active, in operation
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • uranium dating — a method of dating archaeological or geological specimens by determining the decay activity of the uranium in a given sample.
  • url forwarding — URL redirection
  • vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
  • varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
  • 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
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
  • voroshilovgrad — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
  • 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.
  • ward cunnigham — (person)   The creator of the first wiki.
  • warning device — alarm or danger signal
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
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