14-letter words containing t, r, e, o, a, d
- 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
- to draw breath — If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.
- to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
- to lend an ear — If you lend an ear to someone or their problems, you listen to them carefully and sympathetically.
- toilet trained — If a child is toilet trained, he or she has learned to use the toilet.
- topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
- toreador pants — women's close-fitting slacks that extend to or slightly above the calf, styled after the pants traditionally worn by Spanish bullfighters.
- torpedo attack — an attack launched from aircraft, ships, or submarines, using a bomb that is shaped like a tube and travels under water
- tour-de-france — a bicycle touring race, held over a period of 21 days: it covers about 2500 miles (4000 km) in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
- tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
- trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
- trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
- trade unionist — a member of a trade union.
- trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
- trading period — A trading period is a set length of time, usually a number of weeks, months, quarters, or years, in which sales are measured and compared to previous periods.
- traditionalize — to make traditional: to traditionalize family reunions.
- transistorized — (of a device) equipped with a transistor
- trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
- tridimensional — having three dimensions.
- triiodomethane — iodoform.
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- turn on a dime — change direction quickly
- un-apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- unappropriated — not set apart or voted for some purpose or use, as money, revenues, etc.
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- unconcentrated — applied with all one's attention, energy, etc.: their concentrated efforts to win the election.
- unconfederated — not allied to a confederation or joined in confederacy
- uncontradicted — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- uncorroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
- under contract — If you are under contract to someone, you have signed a contract agreeing to work for them, and for no-one else, during a fixed period of time.
- undereducation — to educate too little or poorly.
- underinflation — the lack of sufficient air pressure
- underpopulated — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
- underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
- unidirectional — operating or moving in one direction only; not changing direction: a unidirectional flow.
- unincorporated — not chartered as a corporation; lacking the powers and immunities of a corporate enterprise: an unincorporated business.
- uninterrogated — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
- unrationalized — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- unreciprocated — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- unromanticized — not romantic
- unsubordinated — noting or designating a debt obligation whose holder is placed in precedence below secured and general creditors: subordinated debentures.
- vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.