14-letter words containing a, d, r, e, t
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- covered market — an indoor market
- credence table — a small sideboard, originally one at which food was tasted for poison before serving
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
- credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- 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.
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- 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.
- crested lizard — a long-tailed iguanid lizard, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, of arid areas in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, having a row of enlarged scales down the back.
- cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
- critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
- cross-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
- cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
- crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
- crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- 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.
- cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- 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.
- daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
- dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
- dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
- data hierarchy — The system of data objects which provide the methods for information storage and retrieval. Broadly, a data hierarchy may be considered to be either natural, which arises from the alphabet or syntax of the language in which the information is expressed, or machine, which reflects the facilities of the computer, both hardware and software. A natural data hierarchy might consist of bits, characters, words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. One might use components bound to an application, such as field, record, and file, and these would ordinarily be further specified by having data descriptors such as name field, address field, etc. On the other hand, a machine or software system might use bit, byte, word, block, partition, channel, and port. Programming languages often provide types or objects which can create data hierarchies of arbitrary complexity, thus allowing software system designers to model language structures described by the linguist to greater or lesser degree. The distinction between the natural form of data and the facilities provided by the machine may be obscure, because users force their needs into the molds provided, and programmers change machine designs. As an example, the natural data type "character" and the machine type "byte" are often used interchangeably, because the latter has evolved to meet the need of representing the former.
- data integrity — (data) The absence of unintended changes or errors in some data. Integrity implies that the data is an exact copy of some original version, e.g. that it has not been corrupted in the process of being written to, and read back from, a hard disk or during transmission via some communications channel. Integrity may further imply that the information represented by the data has been validated, i.e. verified to conform to certain constraints, e.g. a date's year, month and day parts are within the appropriate ranges and the date actually exists.
- data processor — a computer that is capable of performing operations on data in order to extract information, reorder files, etc
- data structure — an organized form, such as an array list or string, in which connected data items are held in a computer
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- dataparallel-c — (language, parallel) C with parallel extensions by Hatcher and Quinn of the University of New Hampshire. Dataparallel-C was based on an early version of C* and runs on the Intel iPSC-2 and nCube.
- date of record — the final date a registered stockholder of a corporation has the right to receive a dividend or other benefit.
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daycare centre — an establishment offering daycare to preschool children, enabling their parents to work full time or have extended relief if child care is a problem
- dead president — a banknote
- dead sea fruit — something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- debt repayment — the action of repaying debts, or a single payment made to wards paying off a debt
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- decentralizing — Present participle of decentralize.
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance