14-letter words containing l, a, g, r
- rattle through — If you rattle through something, you deal with it quickly in order to finish it.
- razor-slashing — the action of slashing someone with a razor in order to kill, wound, or disfigure them
- realized gains — Realized gains are gains which have been made from the sale of an asset.
- reamalgamation — the act or process of amalgamating.
- reassimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- reflexological — of or relating to reflexology
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- regulator gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
- relay language — a language, usually an internationally dominant one, which acts as a medium to translate other usually little-spoken languages
- relieving arch — discharging arch.
- reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
- repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- retail banking — banking for individual customers
- retaining wall — a wall for holding in place a mass of earth or the like, as at the edge of a terrace or excavation.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right triangle — a triangle having a right angle (contrasted with oblique triangle).
- roger williams — Ben Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1889–1953, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
- roller bearing — a bearing consisting of cylindrical or tapered rollers running between races in two concentric rings, one of which is mounted on a rotating or oscillating part, as a shaft.
- roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
- rolling launch — the process of introducing a new product into a market gradually
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- route flapping — flapping router
- royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
- royal marriage — a meld of the king and queen of trumps, as in pinochle. Compare marriage (def 9).
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
- sacred college — the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
- sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sacrococcygeal — relating to the sacrum and the coccyx
- 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.
- sales register — a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due.
- salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
- salle a manger — a dining room.
- samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
- sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
- 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