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

  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
  • 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
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
  • thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
  • to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
  • trading estate — industrial area
  • un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
  • underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
  • understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • understrapping — subordinate or inferior
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
  • vat-registered — (of a company or individual) registered as being liable to pay VAT
  • venus's girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • venus's-girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
  • voroshilovgrad — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
  • windmill grass — finger grass.
  • wrangel island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)
  • wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
  • yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.
  • young marrieds — young married people
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