0%

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

  • intransigently — In an intransigent manner.
  • irregularities — the quality or state of being irregular.
  • jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
  • joint mortgage — a loan of money from a bank or building society to buy a house which two or more people are jointly responsible for repaying
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • kilogram-meter — a meter-kilogram-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one kilogram when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force; approximately 7.2 foot-pounds. Abbreviation: kg-m.
  • kindergartener — a child who attends a kindergarten.
  • kindergartners — Plural form of kindergartner.
  • king's pattern — a spoon pattern of the 19th century having a stem decorated with threads, scrolls, and shell motifs.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
  • lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
  • lattice girder — a trusslike girder having the upper and lower chords connected by latticing.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • 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.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • 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.
  • literary agent — a person who manages the business affairs of an author
  • loan agreement — an agreement on the terms of a loan
  • loan guarantee — an undertaking by a government to pay a debt if the borrower defaults
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • long-term care — continuing help and attention
  • lot-et-garonne — a department in SW France. 2079 sq. mi. (5385 sq. km). Capital: Agen.
  • lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • macroaggregate — A relatively large aggregated particle.
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
  • magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
  • magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
  • magnetic storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?