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

  • recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • refugee status — the state of being a person who has fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution, esp in a foreign country in the eyes of the law
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • regenerateness — the state or quality of being regenerated, regeneration
  • registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • regressive tax — a tax which is levied or graduated so that the rate decreases as the amount taxed increases
  • reregistration — the act of registering.
  • reverse-charge — (of a telephone call) made at the recipient's expense
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • riggs' disease — pyorrhea (def 2).
  • ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
  • roger williams — Ben Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1889–1953, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
  • royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
  • rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
  • saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
  • sacred college — the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
  • sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
  • sacrococcygeal — relating to the sacrum and the coccyx
  • sailing orders — the final orders given to a ship's commander before sailing, concerning matters such as time of departure, destination, etc
  • saint george's — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
  • salad dressing — a sauce for a salad, usually with a base of oil and vinegar or of mayonnaise.
  • sales register — a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due.
  • salle a manger — a dining room.
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • sand stargazer — a fish of the family Dactyloscopidae, especially Dactyloscopus tridigitatus, of Atlantic waters from Bermuda to Brazil, having tiny, tubular eyes on top of the head, and capable of emitting electric discharges.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
  • scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • screen sharing — audiographic teleconferencing
  • screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
  • scrimmage line — line of scrimmage.
  • sea gooseberry — a comb jelly, especially of the genus Pleurobrachia.
  • second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
  • 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).
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
  • segregationist — one who favors, encourages, or practices segregation, especially racial segregation.
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
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