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14-letter words containing r, a, g, e

  • the great glen — a fault valley across the whole of Scotland, extending southwest from the Moray Firth in the east to Loch Linnhe and containing Loch Ness and Loch Lochy
  • the great trek — the migration of Boer farmers with their slaves and African servants from the Cape Colony to the north and east from about 1836 to 1845 to escape British authority
  • the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • the real thing — If you say that a thing or event is the real thing, you mean that it is the thing or event itself, rather than an imitation or copy.
  • the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
  • the three magi — the wise men from the East who came to do homage to the infant Jesus (Matthew 2:1–12) and traditionally called Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar
  • thermal imager — a piece of equipment used to detect or provide images of people or things
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
  • 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
  • threaded glass — glass decorated with a pattern produced by variegated glass filaments.
  • throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • 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.
  • to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • toga praetexta — (in ancient Rome) a toga with a broad purple border worn by certain magistrates and priests and by boys until they assumed the toga virilis
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • trading estate — industrial area
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • triple glazing — three layers of glass in windows or doors
  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • ultraenergetic — (of particles) producing exceptional levels of energy
  • unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
  • unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
  • under-training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
  • underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
  • undergraduette — a female undergraduate
  • underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
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