14-letter words containing a, c, i, d, o, s
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- coated vesicle — a clathrin-covered vesicle that forms from the closure of a coated pit, engulfing the ligand-receptor complex in endocytosis.
- cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
- collateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralise.
- commandantship — the office of a commandant
- commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
- compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
- compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- condensational — Of or pertaining to condensation.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- considerations — Plural form of consideration.
- consolidations — Plural form of consolidation.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
- contradictions — the act of contradicting; gainsaying or opposition.
- contradictious — inclined to contradict; contentious
- contradistinct — Distinguished by opposite qualities.
- coordinateness — The state, quality or condition of being coordinate.
- cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- cross-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- cryptosporidia — Plural form of cryptosporidium.
- cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.