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14-letter words containing r, e, i, d, n, t

  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
  • kindergartener — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • kindred spirit — likeminded person
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • kitty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • leading rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable but junior to that of a corporal in the army
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
  • light-fingered — skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
  • line of credit — credit line (def 2).
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • liquid protein — an amino acid hydrosol used in weight-reduction programs as a substitute for all or some meals: generally regarded as hazardous to health because of low nutritional content and recommended for controlled use only under medical supervision.
  • literal-minded — unimaginative; prosaic; matter-of-fact.
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
  • malapportioned — (of a state or other political unit) poorly apportioned, especially divided, organized, or structured in a manner that prevents large sections of a population from having equitable representation in a legislative body.
  • maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
  • matter in deed — a fact or statement that can be proved or established by a deed or specialty.
  • meat and drink — a source of pleasure
  • merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
  • mermaid tavern — an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.
  • merritt island — a town in E Florida.
  • metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
  • metric madness — excessive devotion to metrication
  • microdetection — the measurement of small quantities
  • middle eastern — Also called Mideast. (loosely) the area from Libya E to Afghanistan, usually including Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the other countries of the Arabian peninsula.
  • middle western — of or relating to the Middle West.
  • milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.
  • milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
  • mind the store — to tend to business
  • mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
  • misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
  • misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
  • misinterpreted — Simple past tense and past participle of misinterpret.
  • misrepresented — Simple past tense and past participle of misrepresent.
  • mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
  • multithreading — (parallel)   Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
  • national dress — the traditional clothing of a country
  • natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
  • neanderthaloid — resembling or characteristic of the physical type of Neanderthal man.
  • needle-pointer — embroidery upon canvas, usually with uniform spacing of stitches in a pattern.
  • nematodiriasis — the condition, esp in sheep, of having parasitic nematode worms of the genus Nematodirus in the small intestine
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