14-letter words containing da
- payday lending — the practice of offering short-term loans at high rates of interest, on the agreement that the borrower will pay back the loan when he or she next receives a wage or salary
- pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
- pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
- photooxidation — oxidation induced by light.
- photooxidative — of or relating to photooxidation
- pool attendant — a person who keeps watch at a swimming pool, and rescues anyone in danger of drowning
- prolog-d-linda — Embeds the Linda parallel paradigm into SISCtus Prolog.
- pseudaesthesia — imaginary sensation, like that of an amputated limb
- public holiday — national day off work
- pump attendant — a person who works in a garage or petrol station and who fills customers' cars with petrol
- pyramidal peak — a sharp peak formed where the ridges separating three or more cirques intersect; horn
- quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
- radar operator — someone who operates the equipment used in radar, a method for detecting the position and velocity of a distant object
- rainbow darter — a stout darter, Etheostoma caeruleum, inhabiting the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages, the spawning male of which has the sides marked with oblique blue bars with red interspaces.
- re-accommodate — to do a kindness or a favor to; oblige: to accommodate a friend by helping him move to a new apartment.
- recommendation — an act of recommending.
- recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- red sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
- red-letter day — A red-letter day is a day that you will always remember because something good happens to you then.
- redundancy pay — severance pay.
- reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
- retrogradation — backward movement.
- rewardableness — the quality or state of being rewardable
- roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
- roman calendar — the calendar in use in ancient Rome until 46 b.c., when it was replaced with the Julian calendar.
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
- royal standard — a flag bearing the arms of the British sovereign, flown only when she (or he) is present
- saddam hussein — Also, Hosein, Husain. (al-Husayn) a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
- sandalwood oil — extract of fragrant Asian wood
- sat-cit-ananda — reality, seen through the discovery of Brahman as sat or ultimate being, cit or pure consciousness, and ananda or perfect bliss.
- scapular medal — a medal that has been blessed and may be substituted for a scapular (sense 3)
- secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- secondary cell — storage cell.
- secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
- secondary road — a road less important than a main road or highway.
- secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
- serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
- sesquipedalian — given to using long words.
- sesquipedalism — given to using long words.
- sesquipedality — given to using long words.
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- siraj-ud-daula — 1728?–57, nawab of Bengal 1756–57.