14-letter words containing g, r, t
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- selling plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- selling-plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
- sergeant major — U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative assistant in a unit headquarters.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- serpentiningly — in a winding or sinuous manner
- serve sb right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
- serviette ring — a ring used to hold a cloth serviette or napkin neatly in a cylinder
- seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
- sewing pattern — a guide or diagram that you follow to make clothes or other things using a needle and thread
- seyfert galaxy — one of a group of spiral galaxies with compact, bright nuclei having characteristically broad emission lines suggestive of very hot gases in violent motion at the center.
- shaker heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- shear strength — the degree to which a material or bond is able to resist shear
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- shift register — (in digital circuits) a register in which all bits can be shifted one or more positions to the left or to the right
- shillingsworth — the amount that can be purchased for a shilling
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
- shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
- shooting range — place for practising with guns
- shooting spree — a series of shootings by a mad person
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
- sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
- signature tune — theme song (def 2).
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
- single-sticker — a sailboat, esp. a sloop, having only one mast
- singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
- sitting member — a current member of parliament
- sitting pretty — (of a bird) occupying a nest of eggs for hatching.
- sitting target — A sitting target is the same as a sitting duck.
- skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
- slant drilling — Slant drilling is drilling at an angle of usually 30° to 45°.
- slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
- slaughterously — murderously
- sleep together — have sex with one another
- sleeping berth — a bunk for sleeping on on a train or boat
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- smooth-running — operating in a flowing and effective manner, without difficulties or obstructions
- soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
- solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
- sorting office — postal
- sorting tracks — the part of a railroad yard used for the final sorting of cars from a classification yard.
- south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).