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14-letter words containing r, u, d, a

  • sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
  • sulfurous acid — a colorless liquid, H 2 SO 3 , having a suffocating odor, obtained by dissolving sulfur dioxide in water, known mainly by its salts, which are sulfites: used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a bleach.
  • sulphuric acid — Sulphuric acid is a colourless, oily, and very powerful acid.
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
  • superabundance — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
  • superinsulated — highly insulated
  • supersaturated — to increase the concentration of (a solution) beyond saturation; saturate abnormally.
  • surajah dowlah — Siraj-ud-daula.
  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • sweet and sour — Sweet and sour is used to describe Chinese food that contains both a sweet flavour and something sharp or sour such as lemon or vinegar.
  • sweet-and-sour — cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.
  • tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes
  • tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
  • temporary duty — duty of limited duration performed with an organization other than the one to which a person is normally attached or assigned. Abbreviation: TDY.
  • terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • 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 upper hand — If you have the upper hand in a situation, you have more power than the other people involved and can make decisions about what happens.
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • third quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.
  • thought-reader — someone who can read minds or psychically know others' thoughts
  • to cut and run — If someone cuts and runs in a difficult situation, they try to escape from it quickly and gain an advantage for themselves, rather than deal with the situation in a responsible way.
  • 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.
  • tour-de-france — a bicycle touring race, held over a period of 21 days: it covers about 2500 miles (4000 km) in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
  • trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
  • trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
  • trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
  • trade unionist — a member of a trade union.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
  • transductional — of or relating to transduction
  • trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • tried and true — tested and found to be reliable or workable.
  • tried-and-true — tested and found to be reliable or workable.
  • trinity sunday — the Sunday after Pentecost, observed as a festival in honor of the Trinity.
  • 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.
  • turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
  • turn indicator — a flight instrument that indicates the angular rate of turn of an aircraft about its vertical axis.
  • turn on a dime — change direction quickly
  • ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
  • ultra-orthodox — of, relating to, or conforming to the approved form of any doctrine, philosophy, ideology, etc.
  • ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
  • ultracrepidate — to go beyond one's scope or province, esp to criticize beyond one's sphere of knowledge
  • ultrahazardous — extremely or excessively hazardous
  • umbilical cord — Anatomy. a cord or funicle connecting the embryo or fetus with the placenta of the mother and transporting nourishment from the mother and wastes from the fetus.
  • umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
  • un-apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
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