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14-letter words containing a, n, d

  • antoine domino — Antoine ("Fats") born 1928, U.S. rhythm-and-blues pianist, singer, and composer.
  • appendectomies — Plural form of appendectomy.
  • appendicectomy — surgical removal of any appendage, esp the vermiform appendix
  • apple islander — a native or inhabitant of Tasmania
  • apsidal motion — the rotation of the major axis of an eccentric orbit in the plane of the orbit.
  • arabian desert — a desert in E Egypt, between the Nile, the Gulf of Suez, and the Red Sea: mountainous parts rise over 1800 m (6000 ft). Area: about 220 000 sq km (85 000 sq miles)
  • arachnodactyly — A condition in which the fingers and hands are abnormally long and slender.
  • arcado-cyprian — an ancient language group of eastern Greece.
  • archidiaconate — the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon
  • archimandrites — Plural form of archimandrite.
  • ardent spirits — spirits, such as rum, whisky, etc
  • argand diagram — a diagram in which complex numbers are represented by the points in the plane the coordinates of which are respectively the real and imaginary parts of the number, so that the number x + iy is represented by the point (x, y), or by the corresponding vector <x, y>. If the polar coordinates of (x, y) are (r, θ), r is the modulus and θ the argument of x + iy
  • arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
  • arthroconidium — A kind of asexual fungal spore, typically produced by segmentation of pre-existing fungal hyphae.
  • as good as new — If you say that something or someone is as good as new, you mean that they are in a very good condition or state, especially after they have been damaged or ill.
  • ascending node — the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the north (opposed to descending node).
  • assistance dog — a dog that has been specially trained to live with and accompany a disabled person, carrying out such tasks as prompting them to take medication or assisting them to cross a road
  • assisted dying — the suicide of a person afflicted by an incurable disease, using a lethal dose of drugs provided by a physician for this purpose
  • aswan high dam — a dam on the Nile forming a reservoir (Lake Nasser) extending 480 km (300 miles) from the First to the Third Cataracts: opened in 1971, it was built 6 km (4 miles) upstream from the old Aswan Dam (built in 1902 and twice raised). Height of dam: 109 m (365 ft)
  • at a loose end — If you are at a loose end, you are bored because you do not have anything to do and cannot think of anything that you want to do. In American English, you usually say that you are at loose ends.
  • at second hand — If you experience something at second hand, you are told about it by other people rather than experiencing it yourself.
  • at the hand of — through the action of
  • attitudinarian — a person who assumes an affected attitude
  • attitudinizing — the assumption of an affected attitude
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
  • auditory canal — the narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum.
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • auld lang syne — Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish song about friendship that is traditionally sung as clocks strike midnight on New Year's Eve.
  • austrian blind — a window blind consisting of rows of vertically gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
  • autoantibodies — Plural form of autoantibody.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • autoresponders — Plural form of autoresponder.
  • avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
  • aviation badge — wings.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
  • avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
  • award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
  • axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • azidothymidine — an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
  • back and forth — If someone moves back and forth, they repeatedly move in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
  • back o' beyond — remote; out-of-the-way; isolated.
  • back of beyond — a very remote place
  • back-and-forth — backward and forward; side to side; to and fro: a back-and-forth shuttling of buses to the stadium; the back-and-forth movement of a clock's pendulum.
  • back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
  • backhandedness — The quality of being backhanded; the use of indirect tactics.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
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