14-letter words containing a, p, e, d
- bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
- bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
- bridge passage — bridge1 (def 7).
- broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
- brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism.
- building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
- cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
- caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- 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
- campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
- cape cod canal — a canal in SE Massachusetts, connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- cape girardeau — a city in SE Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
- cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- capparidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Capparidaceae (or (Capparaceae), a family of plants, mostly shrubs including the caper, of warm tropical regions
- cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
- case and paste — (programming) (From "cut and paste") The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes. This usually results in gross violation of the fundamental programming tenet, Don't Repeat Yourself. Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using "case" statements. Leads to software bloat. In some circles of Emacs users this is called "programming by Meta-W", because Meta-W is the Emacs command for copying a block of text to a kill buffer in preparation to pasting it in elsewhere. The term is condescending, implying that the programmer is acting mindlessly rather than thinking carefully about what is required to integrate the code for two similar cases. At DEC, this is sometimes called "clone-and-hack" coding.
- cash dispenser — A cash dispenser is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account using a special card.
- catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
- cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
- cephalic index — the ratio of the greatest width of the human head to its greatest length, multiplied by 100
- cerro de pasco — a town in central Peru, in the Andes: one of the highest towns in the world, 4400 m (14 436 ft) above sea level; mining centre. Pop: 70 000 (latest est)
- cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
- chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
- chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
- chloride paper — a relatively slow printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride: used mostly for contact prints.
- chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
- chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
- clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
- cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
- 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
- compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
- 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
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
- copper cyanide — a creamy-white, highly poisonous, water-insoluble powder, CuCN, used chiefly in electroplating and in organic synthesis.
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
- copy and paste — to copy (information in a computer document) and put it somewhere else in the document
- corporate bond — a bond issued by a corporation in order to increase its capital
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
- cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.