14-letter words containing a, c, h, o, n, d
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- dithionic acid — a strong, unstable acid, H 2 S 2 O 6 , known only in solution and in the form of its salts.
- down the hatch — drinks toast
- draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
- french paradox — the theory that the lower incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean countries compared to that in the US is a consequence of the larger intake of flavonoids from red wine in these countries
- garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
- half-concealed — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
- haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
- hard-core porn — Hard-core porn is pornography that shows sex in a very detailed way, or shows very violent or unpleasant sex.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- humidification — to make humid.
- hydrodynamical — Hydrodynamic.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hydroponically — Using hydroponics.
- hypochondriacs — Plural form of hypochondriac.
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- methanoic acid — systematic name for formic acid
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
- north canadian — river flowing from NE N.Mex. east & southeast into the Canadian River in E Okla.: 760 mi (1,223 km)
- north cascades — a national park in NW Washington: site of glaciers and mountain lakes. 789 sq. mi. (2043 sq. km).
- notched collar — a collar forming a notch with the lapels of a garment at the seam where collar and lapels join.
- osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
- outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
- panidiomorphic — (of igneous rocks) having well-developed crystals
- pitch-and-toss — a game in which players toss coins at a mark, the person whose coin hits closest to the mark tossing all the coins in the air and winning all those that come down heads up.
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- rancho cordova — a town in central California.
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- record changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.
- record-changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.