14-letter words containing a, n, t, s, e
- culzean castle — a Gothic Revival castle near Ayr in South Ayrshire, in SW Scotland: designed by Robert Adam (1772–92); includes a room dedicated to General Eisenhower
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- current assets — Current assets are assets which a company does not use on a continuous basis, such as stocks and debts, but which can be converted into cash within one year.
- curtain raiser — a short play preceding a main play.
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- curtain-raiser — A curtain-raiser is an event, especially a sporting event or a performance, that takes place before a more important one, or starts off a series of events.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- customer's man — registered representative.
- cutis anserina — goose bumps.
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- de-designation — an act of designating.
- dead president — a banknote
- death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
- death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
- death sentence — A death sentence is a punishment of death given by a judge to someone who has been found guilty of a serious crime such as murder.
- deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
- decay constant — the reciprocal of the decay time.
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- degenerateness — The state or quality of being degenerate.
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- deinstallation — The process of deinstalling.
- delectableness — The state or quality of being delectable.
- deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- demand deposit — a bank deposit from which withdrawals may be made without notice
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- demonstrations — Plural form of demonstration.
- demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
- demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
- denationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of denationalise.