14-letter words containing a, r, m, d
- bermuda collar — a narrow, pointed collar on a woman's dress or blouse
- bermuda cutter — a marconi-rigged cutter.
- bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
- bertrand meyer — The author of the Eiffel Language and many articles on object-oriented software techniques.
- beyond compare — If you describe something as beyond compare, you mean that it is extremely good or extremely great.
- beyond measure — If you say that something has changed or that it has affected you beyond measure, you are emphasizing that it has done this to a great extent.
- bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
- bioremediation — the use of plants to extract heavy metals from contaminated soils and water
- bladder ketmia — plant with pale yellow flowers
- bladder ketmie — flower-of-an-hour
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
- commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialized — spoiled by commercial exploitation; degraded
- common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
- community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt