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14-letter words containing a, c, d, i, n, o

  • ball indicator — a flight instrument that measures the angle of roll about an aircraft's horizontal axis, thereby indicating whether or not the aircraft is skidding or slipping.
  • beta reduction — [lambda-calculus] The application of a lambda abstraction to an argument expression. A copy of the body of the lambda abstraction is made and occurrences of the bound variable being replaced by the argument. E.g. (\ x . x+1) 4 --> 4+1 Beta reduction is the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus. The opposite of beta reduction is beta abstraction. These are the two kinds of beta conversion. See also name capture.
  • black diamonds — carbonado1 .
  • board chairman — the chairman of the board of a company, etc
  • body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
  • caicos islands — a group of islands in the Caribbean: part of the British dependency of the Turks and Caicos Islands
  • can ill afford — If you say that someone can ill afford to do something, or can ill afford something, you mean that they must prevent it from happening because it would be harmful or embarrassing to them.
  • canadian bacon — cured, smoked pork taken from the loin in a boneless strip and having a hamlike flavor
  • carbon dioxide — Carbon dioxide is a gas. It is produced by animals and people breathing out, and by chemical reactions.
  • carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
  • cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
  • cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
  • cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
  • carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
  • chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
  • china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
  • china wood oil — tung oil
  • chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
  • chondrichthian — any member of the class Chondrichthyes, comprising the cartilaginous fishes.
  • chondrocranium — the cartilaginous structure that, in early development, envelops the brain
  • chondromalacia — degeneration of cartilage in the knee, usually caused by excessive wear between the patella and lower end of the femur.
  • chondromatosis — a painful and immobilizing condition that affects the joints, in particular the elbow, hip, and knee joints, and results in the synovial tissue becoming cartilaginous
  • chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • chromodynamics — a theory that describes how gluons and their forces bind quarks together to form protons, neutrons, etc.
  • cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
  • commandantship — the office of a commandant
  • commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
  • community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
  • compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
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