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14-letter words containing a, c, u, d, t, e

  • crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
  • data structure — an organized form, such as an array list or string, in which connected data items are held in a computer
  • deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae
  • disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discontinuance — the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
  • discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
  • domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
  • drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
  • drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • draw a picture — represent sth visually
  • ductless gland — endocrine gland.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • educated guess — informed estimate
  • education page — a page in a newspaper devoted to news relating to education or teaching
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
  • excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
  • expected value — the sum or integral of all possible values of a random variable, or any given function of it, multiplied by the respective probabilities of the values of the variable. Symbol: E(X). E(X) is the mean of the distribution; E(X–c) = E(X)–c where c is a constant
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
  • issued capital — the shares of a company that have been sold or distributed
  • judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
  • justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
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