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14-letter words containing t, i, n, a, g

  • straining sill — (in a roof with a queen post) a compression member lying along the tie beam and separating the feet of the struts.
  • strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
  • striking train — the gear train of the striking mechanism of a timepiece.
  • string quartet — a musical composition, usually in three or four movements, for four stringed instruments, typically two violins, viola, and cello.
  • strip planting — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
  • sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • swimming baths — an indoor swimming pool
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
  • tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
  • take a meeting — to attend a business conference
  • take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
  • tanen taunggyi — a mountain range in NW Thailand and SE Burma, rising to a height of 7000 feet (2134 meters).
  • tangata tiriti — a Māori term for non-Māori people
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • tarpon springs — a town in W Florida.
  • tax-collecting — the collection of taxes owed by individuals
  • 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
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
  • telangiectasis — chronic dilatation of the capillaries and other small blood vessels.
  • televangelical — relating to televangelism
  • tenant farming — farming land owned by sb else
  • tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
  • tenzing norgay — 1914–86, Nepalese mountaineer. With Sir Edmund Hillary, he was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1953)
  • teratogenicity — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • text messaging — sending typed mobile phone messages
  • thanatological — relating to thanatology, the study of death and dying
  • 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
  • the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
  • the real thing — If you say that a thing or event is the real thing, you mean that it is the thing or event itself, rather than an imitation or copy.
  • the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • time and again — frequently
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
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