14-letter words containing di
- springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stadium jacket — an insulated, parkalike jacket that reaches to the mid thigh or the knees and often has a drawstring around the bottom edge, worn outdoors in cold weather.
- staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
- stage director — a person who directs a theatrical production.
- standing order — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
- standing start — the start of a race where participants begin from a standing or upright position
- standing water — still water that has stagnated
- state medicine — socialized medicine.
- stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
- studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
- studio theatre — a small theatre within which the stage and seating can usually be rearranged
- sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- sulfur dioxide — a colorless, nonflammable, water-soluble, suffocating gas, SO 2 , formed when sulfur burns: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals such as sulfuric acid, in preserving fruits and vegetables, and in bleaching, disinfecting, and fumigating.
- 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
- sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- t distribution — Student's t distribution.
- take a dislike — If you take a dislike to someone or something, you decide that you do not like them.
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
- tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
- teeth grinding — habitual, purposeless clenching and grinding of the teeth, especially during sleep.
- the grenadines — a chain of about 600 islets in the Caribbean, part of the Windward Islands, extending for about 100 km (60 miles) between St Vincent and Grenada and divided administratively between the two states. Largest island: Carriacou
- the mujaheddin — (in Afghanistan and Iran) fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas; in Afghanistan in 1992 the mujaheddin overthrew the government but were unable to agree on a constitution due to factional conflict and in 1996 Taliban forces seized power
- thermoperiodic — responding to or affected by periodic differences in temperatures.
- tin difluoride — stannous fluoride.
- to sb's credit — If something is to someone's credit, they deserve praise for it.
- toluidine blue — a dark green powder, C15H16N3SCl·ZnCl2, used in dyeing textiles, as a biological stain, as a coagulant in medicine, etc.
- trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
- trading estate — industrial area
- trading nation — a nation that trades with other countries
- 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.
- traditionalism — adherence to tradition as authority, especially in matters of religion.
- traditionalist — adherence to tradition as authority, especially in matters of religion.
- traditionality — of or relating to tradition.
- traditionalize — to make traditional: to traditionalize family reunions.
- trial division — trial department
- tridimensional — having three dimensions.
- tunnel disease — aeroembolism (def 2).
- turn indicator — a flight instrument that indicates the angular rate of turn of an aircraft about its vertical axis.
- turn on a dime — change direction quickly
- ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
- un-adjudicated — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- un-dialectical — dialectic.
- un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- unconditioning — a particular mode of being of a person or thing; existing state; situation with respect to circumstances.
- uncontradicted — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.