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14-letter words containing r, e, y, s, n, d

  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • knacker's yard — a slaughterhouse for horses
  • laetare sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent when the introit begins with “ Laetare Jerusalem ” (Rejoice ye, Jerusalem).
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • mean solar day — day (def 3a).
  • monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
  • neurodiversity — the variation and differences in neurological structure and function that exist among human beings, especially when viewed as being normal and natural rather than pathological: recognizing autism as an example of neurodiversity.
  • new year's day — January 1, celebrated as a holiday in many countries.
  • non-depository — a place where something is deposited or stored, as for safekeeping: the night depository of a bank.
  • north tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 190 800 (2003 est). Area: 84 sq km (32 sq miles)
  • ordinary share — British. a share of common stock.
  • orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • read-only user — (jargon)   Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading Usenet, bulletin boards, and/or electronic mail, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, terminal junkie, lurker.
  • scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
  • secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
  • secondary cell — storage cell.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • secondary road — a road less important than a main road or highway.
  • secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
  • secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
  • stanley dancerStanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
  • steel industry — production of steel
  • strong-eye dog — a dog trained to control sheep by its gaze
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • tank destroyer — a high-speed, self-propelled, armored combat vehicle with antitank cannon.
  • 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
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • uncrystallized — lacking a final form
  • undersecretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
  • understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
  • unrestrictedly — in an unrestricted manner
  • unsynchronized — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • ursine dasyure — Tasmanian devil.
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