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14-letter words containing a, c, n, e, d

  • angelic doctor — an epithet of Saint Thomas Aquinas
  • anti-desiccant — a substance or material applied to a plant, as by spraying, to inhibit moisture loss during transplanting.
  • anti-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • antiadrenergic — Preventing or counteracting the effects of adrenaline.
  • antidemocratic — opposed to the principles or practice of democracy
  • appendectomies — Plural form of appendectomy.
  • appendicectomy — surgical removal of any appendage, esp the vermiform appendix
  • archidiaconate — the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon
  • archimandrites — Plural form of archimandrite.
  • ascending node — the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the north (opposed to descending node).
  • assistance dog — a dog that has been specially trained to live with and accompany a disabled person, carrying out such tasks as prompting them to take medication or assisting them to cross a road
  • at second hand — If you experience something at second hand, you are told about it by other people rather than experiencing it yourself.
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
  • award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
  • back o' beyond — remote; out-of-the-way; isolated.
  • back of beyond — a very remote place
  • back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
  • backhandedness — The quality of being backhanded; the use of indirect tactics.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • balance bridge — a bascule bridge
  • balanced valve — a valve designed so that pressure-induced forces from the fluid being controlled oppose one another so that resistance to opening and closing the valve is negligible.
  • ballroom dance — a social dance, popular since the beginning of the 20th century, in conventional rhythms, such as the foxtrot and the quickstep
  • benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
  • 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.
  • beyond compare — If you describe something as beyond compare, you mean that it is extremely good or extremely great.
  • bib and tucker — an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker)
  • black and blue — discolored, as by bruising; exhibiting ecchymosis: a black-and-blue mark on my knee.
  • black bindweed — a twining polygonaceous European plant, Polygonum convolvulus, with heart-shaped leaves and triangular black seed pods
  • black-and-blue — (of the skin) discoloured, as from a bruise
  • bladder cancer — any cancer of the bladder
  • block calendar — a calendar in the form of a block of sheets each printed with the date of one day
  • body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
  • bomber command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to tactical and strategic bombing, esp during WWII
  • botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
  • boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
  • boundary fence — a fence between properties
  • bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
  • branched chain — an open chain of atoms with one or more side chains attached to it
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
  • cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
  • cagayan de oro — city in E Mindanao, in the Philippines; pop. 340,000
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