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14-letter words containing g, r, i, d, o

  • saint gotthard — a mountain range in S Switzerland; a part of the Alps; highest peak, 10,490 feet (3195 meters).
  • second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • self-glorified — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
  • 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
  • skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
  • 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.
  • sound engineer — A sound engineer is a person who works in a recording studio or for a radio or television company, and whose job it is to alter and balance the levels of different sounds as they are recorded.
  • sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • spending power — income available for spending
  • 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.
  • springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • stabbing board — A stabbing board is a platform in the derrick, on which the derrickhand stands to run in casing.
  • stage director — a person who directs a theatrical production.
  • standing order — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • 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
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • 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
  • through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
  • to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • 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.
  • twilight world — a situation of confusion or uncertainty, which seems to exist between two different states or categories
  • uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
  • under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
  • underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
  • underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
  • uninterrogated — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
  • 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
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • 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.
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
  • wind generator — an electric generator situated on a tower and driven by the force of wind on blades or a rotor.
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