14-letter words containing a, d, m
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- come to a head — to be about to discharge pus
- come to an end — to become completed or exhausted
- command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
- command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
- commandantship — the office of a commandant
- commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialized — spoiled by commercial exploitation; degraded
- commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
- common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
- community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
- company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
- compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
- compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
- compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
- compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
- computer-aided — done or improved by computer
- confidence man — A confidence man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them.
- counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- covered market — an indoor market
- cream-coloured — cream in colour
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- creme d'ananas — a liqueur flavored with pineapple.
- creme de cacao — a sweet liqueur with a chocolate flavour
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
- dandie dinmont — a breed of small terrier with a long coat and drooping ears
- data modelling — data model
- deadly embrace — deadlock
- debt repayment — the action of repaying debts, or a single payment made to wards paying off a debt
- decamillennial — Occurring every ten thousand years.
- 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.
- decimalization — Alternative spelling of decimalisation.
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.