14-letter words containing t, r, a, d, e
- interdigitated — Simple past tense and past participle of interdigitate.
- intergradation — the act or process of intergrading or the state of being intergraded.
- intermediaries — Plural form of intermediary.
- intermediately — being, situated, or acting between two points, stages, things, persons, etc.: the intermediate steps in a procedure.
- intermediating — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
- intermediation — the act of intermediating.
- intermediatory — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
- internal audit — an audit conducted by company accountants on a regular basis (distinguished from independent audit).
- internet-draft — (I-D) A draft working document of the Internet Engineering Task Force, its Areas, and its Working Groups. As the name implies, Internet-Drafts are purely discussion documents with no formal status. They are valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. Very often, an I-D is a precursor to a Request For Comments.
- interrelatedly — in an interrelated manner
- intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
- irrationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of irrationalise.
- isodiametrical — isodiametric
- james breasted — James Henry, 1865–1935, U.S. archaeologist and historian of ancient Egypt.
- jerusalem date — butterfly flower.
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- juxtamedullary — (anatomy) next to the edge of the medulla (of the kidney).
- kindergartener — a child who attends a kindergarten.
- kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- lady's-tresses — any orchid of the genus Spiranthes, having spikes of small flowers.
- laetare sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent when the introit begins with “ Laetare Jerusalem ” (Rejoice ye, Jerusalem).
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
- landing-waiter — landwaiter.
- late developer — someone, esp a teenager, who matures physically or emotionally at an older age than considered usual
- latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
- lattice girder — a trusslike girder having the upper and lower chords connected by latticing.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
- lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
- leading rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable but junior to that of a corporal in the army
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- lightheartedly — In a lighthearted manner, cheerfully, with joy.
- linkage editor — linker
- linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
- literal-minded — unimaginative; prosaic; matter-of-fact.
- little richard — (Richard Wayne Penniman) born 1932, U.S. rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist.
- lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
- lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
- lords temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
- maitre d'hotel — a headwaiter.
- make the grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.