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14-letter words containing a, m, d

  • black diamonds — carbonado1 .
  • bladder ketmia — plant with pale yellow flowers
  • bladder ketmie — flower-of-an-hour
  • blended family — a social unit consisting of two previously married parents and the children of their former marriages
  • blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
  • blue-eyed mary — a blue-flowered boraginaceous plant, Omphalodes verna, native to S Europe and cultivated in Britain
  • board chairman — the chairman of the board of a company, etc
  • body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
  • bomber command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to tactical and strategic bombing, esp during WWII
  • break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • broom cupboard — a small cupboard or closet for storing brooms, mops, etc
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
  • cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
  • campeachy wood — wood from the Central American tree Haematoxylon campechianum
  • camphoric acid — a whitish crystallizable substance derived from the oxidization of camphor, used in solution in medicine as an antiseptic. Formula: C10H16O4
  • campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
  • canada hemlock — a hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, of eastern North America, having horizontal branches that often droop to the ground: the state tree of Pennsylvania.
  • cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
  • cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
  • cayman islands — three coral islands in the Caribbean Sea northwest of Jamaica: a dependency of Jamaica until 1962, now a UK Overseas Territory. Capital: George Town. Pop: 53 737 (2013 est). Area: about 260 sq km (100 sq miles)
  • certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
  • cevitamic acid — ascorbic acid
  • charmed circle — If you refer to a group of people as a charmed circle, you mean that they seem to have special power or influence, and do not allow anyone else to join their group.
  • china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
  • chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
  • chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
  • chondrocranium — the cartilaginous structure that, in early development, envelops the brain
  • chondromalacia — degeneration of cartilage in the knee, usually caused by excessive wear between the patella and lower end of the femur.
  • chondromatosis — a painful and immobilizing condition that affects the joints, in particular the elbow, hip, and knee joints, and results in the synovial tissue becoming cartilaginous
  • chondrosarcoma — A type of bone cancer, a cartilage-based tumour.
  • chordamesoderm — a kind of mesoderm that develops into the notochord
  • christmas card — Christmas cards are cards with greetings, which people send to their friends and family at Christmas.
  • chromodynamics — a theory that describes how gluons and their forces bind quarks together to form protons, neutrons, etc.
  • cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
  • circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
  • circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
  • clamshell door — Often, clamshell doors. a door consisting of two panels that spread open vertically, as those located on the underside of some cargo planes.
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
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