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14-letter words containing t, r, a, m, d

  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • right-hand man — an indispensable or invaluable assistant; right hand.
  • sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
  • salt dome trap — A salt dome trap is an area where oil has been trapped underground by salt pushing upward.
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • sharp-tempered — with a tendency to become suddenly angry
  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • simple-hearted — free of deceit; artless; sincere.
  • smothered mate — checkmate delivered by a knight when the king's mobility is restricted by his own pieces.
  • sodium citrate — a white, crystalline or granular, water-soluble, odorless solid, Na 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, having a cool, saline taste: used in photography, in soft drinks, and in medicine chiefly to prevent the coagulation of blood.
  • sodium nitrate — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, NaNO 3 , that occurs naturally as soda niter: used in fertilizers, explosives, and glass, and as a color fixative in processed meats.
  • speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
  • spermatic cord — the cord by which a testis is suspended in the scrotum, containing the vas deferens and the blood vessels and nerves of the testis.
  • sports stadium — an arena where sports are played
  • standard model — a mathematical description of the elementary particles of matter and the fundamental forces by which they interact and behave; a model combining electromagnetic and weak forces.
  • standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
  • striped marlin — a marlin, Tetrapturus audax, of the Pacific Ocean, having the sides of the body marked with dark blue vertical stripes, valued for sport and food.
  • tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes
  • tandem trailer — Also called double-bottom, double-trailer truck, tandem. a very long rig consisting of a tractor pulling two trailers hooked up one behind another.
  • tatterdemalion — a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
  • temporary duty — duty of limited duration performed with an organization other than the one to which a person is normally attached or assigned. Abbreviation: TDY.
  • terms of trade — the ratio of export prices to import prices. It measures a nation's trading position, which improves when export prices rise faster or fall slower than import prices
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
  • traditionalism — adherence to tradition as authority, especially in matters of religion.
  • traffic-jammed — jam1 (def 16).
  • transom window — a window divided by a transom.
  • trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
  • tridimensional — having three dimensions.
  • triiodomethane — iodoform.
  • turn on a dime — change direction quickly
  • umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
  • unadministered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
  • unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
  • undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
  • understatement — the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.
  • undeterminable — capable of being determined.
  • undramatically — in an undramatic manner
  • unmanufactured — (of a product, commodity, etc) not manufactured
  • unmaterialised — not materialised
  • unmaterialized — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
  • unmatriculated — (of a student) not enrolled in a college, university, or similar institution
  • unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
  • unpremeditated — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
  • unromanticized — not romantic
  • uranium dating — a method of dating archaeological or geological specimens by determining the decay activity of the uranium in a given sample.
  • war department — the department of the federal government that, from 1789 until 1947, was responsible for defense and the military establishment: in 1947 it became the Department of the Army, which became part of the Department of Defense when it was established in 1949.
  • word formation — the formation of words, for example by adding prefixes or suffixes to roots
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