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14-letter words containing r, i, n, g, s, d

  • gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • good samaritan — a person who gratuitously gives help or sympathy to those in distress. Luke 10:30–37.
  • grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
  • grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • grease-stained — stained with grease marks
  • greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
  • groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • in this regard — on this point
  • index register — (processor)   A register found in some CPUs, whose contents can be added to the address operand to give the effective address. Incrementing the index register then allows the program to access the next location in memory and so on, making it very useful for working with arrays or blocks of memory. Index registers first appeared around April 1949 in the Manchester Mark I. The Mark I's index register's contents were simply added to the entire instruction, thus potentially changing the opcode (see The story of Mel)!
  • jardin anglais — a landscape garden having winding paths and irregular planting.
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • kissing bridge — a covered bridge.
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • modern english — the English language since c1475.
  • monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
  • morris dancing — Morris dancing is a type of old English country dancing which is performed by people wearing special costumes.
  • narcodiagnosis — the use of drugs to produce narcosis as an aid in diagnosis.
  • neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
  • non-discerning — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.
  • oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
  • passenger side — the side of a car which is not the driver's side
  • piedras negras — a city in N Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
  • postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
  • pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
  • power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency
  • predesignation — to designate beforehand.
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • propagandistic — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
  • pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
  • queer-sounding — that sounds odd or strange
  • radiodiagnosis — diagnosis by means of radiography or radioscopy.
  • ranch dressing — seasoned mayonnaise sauce
  • random testing — (programming, testing)   A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
  • realized gains — Realized gains are gains which have been made from the sale of an asset.
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • sailing orders — the final orders given to a ship's commander before sailing, concerning matters such as time of departure, destination, etc
  • saint gotthard — a mountain range in S Switzerland; a part of the Alps; highest peak, 10,490 feet (3195 meters).
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