14-letter words containing o, g, d, a
- 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.
- strong forward — power forward
- sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
- sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- 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
- tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
- tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
- thought-reader — someone who can read minds or psychically know others' thoughts
- 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
- to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
- 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.
- unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
- 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.
- undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
- 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
- vacuum molding — Vacuum molding is a type of molding in which pressure is applied by introducing a vacuum on the side of the mold.
- vaginal condom — a contraceptive for women, being a thin polyurethane pouch, one end of which is inserted into the vagina and the other end spread over the vulva.
- vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
- vegetable-gold — Also called vegetable gold. a crocus, Crocus sativus, having showy purple flowers.
- 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.
- viola da gamba — an old musical instrument of the viol family, held on or between the knees: superseded by the modern violoncello; bass viol.
- 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.
- wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
- wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
- world language — a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
- wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
- xenodiagnostic — of or relating to xenodiagnosis
- xeroradiograph — an x-ray utilizing a specially coated plate that allows a picture to be developed without the use of liquid chemicals.
- yard-long bean — asparagus bean.
- young marrieds — young married people
- zodiacal light — a luminous tract in the sky, seen in the west after sunset or in the east before sunrise and thought to be the light reflected from a cloud of meteoric matter revolving round the sun.