14-letter words containing u, r, g, e, d
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- powdered sugar — a sugar produced by pulverizing granulated sugar, especially a coarser variety used for fruits or cold beverages. Symbol: XX.
- pressure ridge — a ridge produced on floating ice by buckling or crushing under lateral pressure of wind or ice.
- producer goods — goods, such as raw materials and machines, that are used in producing other goods
- pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
- pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- pseudopregnant — relating to the state of pseudopregnancy
- pumped storage — a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.
- quadragenarian — 40 years of age.
- quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
- queer-sounding — that sounds odd or strange
- reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
- reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
- revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
- rounding error — an error introduced into a computation by the need to perform rounding
- rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
- security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
- self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- sound engineer — A sound engineer is a person who works in a recording studio or for a radio or television company, and whose job it is to alter and balance the levels of different sounds as they are recorded.
- square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
- standard gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
- summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
- testing ground — place where sth is tested
- the red guards — a radical political movement of civilian youths in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution
- thought-reader — someone who can read minds or psychically know others' thoughts
- through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
- thunder thighs — thick-set upper legs
- 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.
- trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
- trudgen stroke — a swimming stroke in which a double overarm motion and a scissors kick are used
- tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
- turbo debugger — (programming) A source-level debugger designed for use with Borland and other compilers.
- uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
- under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- under-training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- undergraduette — a female undergraduate
- underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
- underutilizing — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- ungroundedness — the state of being without basis
- uninterrogated — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.