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14-letter words containing a, d, i, c, t

  • associated gas — Associated gas is raw natural gas that comes through crude oil wells.
  • atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audio-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
  • audiocassettes — Plural form of audiocassette.
  • auditory canal — the narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • automatic door — a self-opening door
  • autopilot code — (jargon, humour)   Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • ball cartridge — a cartridge containing a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder
  • ball indicator — a flight instrument that measures the angle of roll about an aircraft's horizontal axis, thereby indicating whether or not the aircraft is skidding or slipping.
  • ballistic wind — a single wind vector that would have the same net effect on the trajectory of a projectile as the varying winds encountered in flight.
  • basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
  • basidiomycetes — Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs.
  • 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.
  • bib and tucker — an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker)
  • bidialectalism — the state of being bidialectal
  • bird sanctuary — an area of land in which birds are protected and encouraged to breed
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
  • brachydactylia — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
  • brachydactylic — having abnormally short fingers or toes
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
  • cardboard city — an area of a city in which homeless people sleep rough, often in cardboard boxes
  • cardiac arrest — A cardiac arrest is a heart attack.
  • cardiac output — blood volume in liters pumped by the left ventricle of the heart per minute.
  • cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
  • cardinal tetra — a small, brilliantly colored red and blue characin fish, Paracheirodon axelrodi, native to tropical forest streams in Brazil and Colombia: a popular aquarium fish.
  • cardinal trait — a basic and dominant characteristic, as greed or ambition, that, according to a theory developed by psychologist Gordon Allport (1936), controls the behavior of many people.
  • cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
  • cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
  • cardiothoracic — of or relating to the heart and the chest
  • cardiotoxicity — The state or condition of being cardiotoxic.
  • carotid artery — A carotid artery is one of the two arteries in the neck that supply the head with blood.
  • carriage trade — trade from the wealthy part of society
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
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