14-letter words containing a, d, m, n, c
- pneumatic duct — the duct joining the air bladder and alimentary canal of a physostomous fish.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
- promenade deck — an upper deck or part of a deck on a passenger ship where passengers can stroll, often covered with a light shade deck.
- psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- recommendation — an act of recommending.
- recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
- record company — business: sells recorded music
- roman calendar — the calendar in use in ancient Rome until 46 b.c., when it was replaced with the Julian calendar.
- sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
- scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
- scream and die — Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
- second baseman — the player whose position is second base.
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
- semi-dominance — incomplete dominance.
- shamefacedness — modest or bashful.
- slalom descent — a winding descent
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
- space medicine — the branch of aviation medicine dealing with the effects on humans of flying outside the earth's atmosphere.
- speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
- state medicine — socialized medicine.
- tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
- unacademically — in an unacademic manner
- unacclimatized — not acclimatized, accustomed, or adapted to
- unaccommodated — not accommodated; not adapted.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- uncommunicated — that has not been communicated
- uncontaminated — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- uncontemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
- undomesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- undramatically — in an undramatic manner
- unmanufactured — (of a product, commodity, etc) not manufactured
- unmatriculated — (of a student) not enrolled in a college, university, or similar institution
- unromanticized — not romantic
- vacuum molding — Vacuum molding is a type of molding in which pressure is applied by introducing a vacuum on the side of the mold.
- vaginal condom — a contraceptive for women, being a thin polyurethane pouch, one end of which is inserted into the vagina and the other end spread over the vulva.