14-letter words containing g, r, i, d, l
- self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
- self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
- semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- siegfried line — a zone of fortifications in W Germany facing the Maginot Line, constructed in the years preceding World War II.
- silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
- single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
- slant drilling — Slant drilling is drilling at an angle of usually 30° to 45°.
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- soldering iron — an instrument for melting and applying solder.
- solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
- spiral binding — a binding, as for a notebook or booklet, in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.
- spring molding — a molded board, as one forming part of a cornice, placed diagonally and secured at the ends to two surfaces intersecting at a right angle.
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- 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
- to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
- twilight world — a situation of confusion or uncertainty, which seems to exist between two different states or categories
- under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- underutilizing — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unpretendingly — without pretence
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- url forwarding — URL redirection
- 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.
- virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
- voroshilovgrad — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- windmill grass — finger grass.
- wrangel island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
- yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.