14-letter words containing g, r, t
- 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.
- traffic lights — a set of coloured lights placed at crossroads, junctions, etc, to control the flow of traffic
- tragacanth gum — Tragacanth gum is a gum obtained from the tragacanth plant, used as a suspending agent.
- trailing phlox — a prostrate plant, Phlox nivalis, of the southeastern U.S., having pink or white flowers.
- train-spotting — (of a train enthusiast) the activity of going to train stations and recording the numbers of trains
- training pants — briefs or shorts of cotton with added thickness, worn by a young child during toilet training.
- training plane — a plane used for training pilots, esp in the military
- training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
- training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
- transfer agent — a person, bank, or trust company officially designated to act for a corporation in executing and recording the transfers of its stock from one legal owner to another.
- transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
- transmigration — the act of transmigrating.
- transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
- traumatologist — a branch of surgery dealing with major wounds caused by accidents or violence.
- trial marriage — an arrangement by which a couple live together for a period of time to see if they are compatible for marriage.
- trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
- trigger finger — any finger, usually the forefinger, that presses the trigger of a gun.
- triple glazing — three layers of glass in windows or doors
- tropologically — in a way which uses figurative language
- trudgen stroke — a swimming stroke in which a double overarm motion and a scissors kick are used
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- tsugaru strait — a strait between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, N Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean. 100 miles (160 km) long and 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.
- tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
- 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.
- turbine engine — a rotary engine that converts kinetic energy of a moving fluid (water, steam, air, or combustion products of a fuel) into mechanical energy
- turbo debugger — (programming) A source-level debugger designed for use with Borland and other compilers.
- turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
- turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
- turing tar-pit — A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan M. Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A "Turing tar-pit" is any computer language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's theoretically universal but in practice, the harder you struggle to get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare bondage-and-discipline language. A tar pit is a geological occurence where subterranean tar leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of tar. Animals wandering or falling in get stuck, being unable to extricate themselves from the tar. La Brea, California, has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
- turning circle — the smallest circle in which a vehicle can turn
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- tutorial group — a small grouping of students given intensive tuition by a tutor
- twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
- twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
- twilight world — a situation of confusion or uncertainty, which seems to exist between two different states or categories
- ultimogeniture — postremogeniture.
- ultra-rightism — the beliefs of extremely right-wing political parties or groups
- ultra-rightist — a person with extremely right-wing political views
- ultraenergetic — (of particles) producing exceptional levels of energy
- ultraglamorous — extremely glamorous
- un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- under-training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- undergraduette — a female undergraduate
- 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.