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

  • a dog's dinner — something that is messy or bungled
  • a grands frais — at great cost or expense.
  • administrating — to administer.
  • aggrandisement — an act or instance of aggrandizing, or increasing in size, or intensity: aggrandizement of mercantile trade in the early colonies.
  • agrifoodstuffs — the foods produced by agriculture
  • agroindustrial — of or relating to agroindustry
  • bascule bridge — a kind of drawbridge counterweighted so that it can be raised and lowered easily
  • bascule-bridge — a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
  • bastard indigo — a bushy shrub, Amorpha fruticosa, of the legume family, native to North America, having elongated clusters of dull purplish or bluish flowers.
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • big red switch — (jargon)   (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • binding strake — a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • blessed virgin — the Virgin Mary
  • blind register — (in the United Kingdom) a list of those who are blind and are therefore entitled to financial and other benefits
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • borders region — a former local government region in S Scotland, formed in 1975 from Berwick, Peebles, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and part of Midlothian; replaced in 1996 by Scottish Borders council area
  • brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • bridge passage — bridge1 (def 7).
  • building works — construction projects
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
  • cross bridging — bridging composed of crisscross pieces of wood.
  • cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
  • cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
  • cross-dressing — the wearing of clothes normally associated with the opposite sex
  • cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
  • crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
  • cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
  • cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
  • darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
  • dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • david d'angers — (born Pierre Jean David) 1788?-1856; Fr. sculptor
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
  • decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
  • deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.

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