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14-letter words containing a, c, i, s

  • curtain-raiser — A curtain-raiser is an event, especially a sporting event or a performance, that takes place before a more important one, or starts off a series of events.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
  • cutis anserina — goose bumps.
  • cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
  • cyclosilicates — Plural form of cyclosilicate.
  • cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
  • cystolithiasis — a medical condition caused by the formation of a calculus in the bladder
  • cytostatically — in a cytostatic manner
  • czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
  • dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
  • dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
  • dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
  • dead-air space — an unventilated air space in which the air does not circulate.
  • death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
  • decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
  • dechristianize — to make non-Christian
  • decimal system — the number system in general use, having a base of ten, in which numbers are expressed by combinations of the ten digits 0 to 9
  • 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.
  • declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
  • 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.
  • decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
  • describability — The quality of being describable.
  • despicableness — The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
  • despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
  • diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
  • diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • dialectologist — a specialist in dialectology.
  • diaper service — a service that provides clean diapers to parents and takes away dirty diapers to wash them
  • diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
  • dioscoreaceous — of or relating to the Dioscoreaceae family of monocotyledonous plants that includes the yam (genus Dioscurea)
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • dirac constant — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10–34 joule seconds
  • direct address — Grammar. the use of a term or name for the person spoken to, as in securing the attention of that person; use of a vocative form.
  • disaccharidase — an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides, as sucrose or lactose, to produce monosaccharides, as fructose or glucose.
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