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

  • prostate gland — an organ that surrounds the urethra of males at the base of the bladder, comprising a muscular portion, which controls the release of urine, and a glandular portion, which secretes an alkaline fluid that makes up part of the semen and enhances the motility and fertility of sperm.
  • pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
  • quadrangularly — in a quadrangular manner
  • radiographical — the production of radiographs.
  • radiologically — of or relating to radiology.
  • radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
  • ragnar lodbrok — a possibly historical Danish king of the 9th century, the subject of an Old Icelandic saga and of accounts in the Danish history by Saxo Grammaticus: also associated with the story of Sigurd and the Volsungs.
  • railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
  • realized gains — Realized gains are gains which have been made from the sale of an asset.
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
  • sacred college — the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
  • sailing orders — the final orders given to a ship's commander before sailing, concerning matters such as time of departure, destination, etc
  • salad dressing — a sauce for a salad, usually with a base of oil and vinegar or of mayonnaise.
  • salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
  • 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
  • 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°.
  • 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.
  • straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
  • sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • 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
  • 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.
  • well-regulated — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • 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.
  • world language — a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
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