14-letter words containing a, t, d
- adventitiously — associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic.
- adventure park — a place offering a variety of outdoor entertainments involving physical challenges, esp for children
- adverse action — An adverse action notice is an official explanation by a financial institution of why they are refusing to grant credit to someone.
- advertisements — Plural form of advertisement.
- aerodynamicist — an expert in aerodynamics.
- aforementioned — If you refer to the aforementioned person or subject, you mean the person or subject that has already been mentioned.
- aggrandisement — an act or instance of aggrandizing, or increasing in size, or intensity: aggrandizement of mercantile trade in the early colonies.
- aggrandization — The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
- aggrandizement — If someone does something for aggrandizement, they do it in order to get power, wealth, and importance for themselves.
- agrifoodstuffs — the foods produced by agriculture
- agroindustrial — of or relating to agroindustry
- air conduction — Medicine/Medical. transmission of sound vibrations to the eardrum through the external auditory meatus (opposed to bone conduction).
- air stewardess — a stewardess on an airliner
- airconditioned — Alternative spelling of air-conditioned.
- airconditioner — Alternative form of air conditioner.
- albrecht durer — Albrecht [ahl-brekht] /ˈɑl brɛxt/ (Show IPA), 1471–1528, German painter and engraver.
- album-oriented — of or designating a format featuring rock songs from LPs and CDs rather than singles, especially mainstream rock music.
- aldus manutius — 1450–1515, Italian printer, noted for his fine editions of the classics. He introduced italic type
- alexander city — a city in E Alabama.
- alfred t mahan — Alfred Thayer [they-er] /ˈθeɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1840–1914, U.S. naval officer and writer on naval history.
- all-metal body — a body composed only of metal, esp for a vehicle, camera, or gun
- allotetraploid — a hybrid cell or individual possessing four times the chromosomes in a haploid organism
- almond extract — oil, essence
- altitudinarian — relating to high ideals
- ambidextrously — In an ambidextrous manner.
- aminopeptidase — an enzyme produced by the glands of the small intestine
- amniotic fluid — the fluid surrounding the fetus in the womb
- amusement ride — a device at a fair, theme park, etc that people can ride in
- anagrammatized — Simple past tense and past participle of anagrammatize.
- ancient wisdom — pre-Christian knowledge, philosophy, and beliefs
- and everything — You say 'and everything' after mentioning a particular thing or list of things to indicate that they are only examples and that other things are also involved.
- and no mistake — certainly
- and/or whatnot — People sometimes say 'and whatnot' or 'or whatnot' after mentioning one or more things, to refer in a vague way to other things which are similar.
- andrew project — (project) A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at Carnegie Mellon University, named after Andrew Carnegie, an American philanthropist who provided money to establish CMU. See also Andrew File System, Andrew Message System, Andrew Toolkit, class.
- andrew toolkit — (tool) (ATK) A portable user interface toolkit developed as part of the Andrew project, running on the X Window System and distributed with X11R5.
- andromedotoxin — a poisonous substance found in various plants of the family Ericaceae, and in particular in plants of the genus Andromeda
- andy tanenbaum — Andrew Tanenbaum
- angelic doctor — an epithet of Saint Thomas Aquinas
- anisodactylous — Zoology. having the toes unlike, or unequal in number.
- antaphrodisiac — Capable of reducing the sex drive.
- antediluvially — in antediluvian times, in times before the Flood
- antennal gland — green gland.
- anthony dollar — a cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to one dollar, bearing a portrait of Susan B. Anthony on its obverse: first issued in 1979.
- anthropoid ape — any primate of the family Pongidae, having no tail, elongated arms, and a highly developed brain. The group includes gibbons, orang-utans, chimpanzees, and gorillas
- anti-apartheid — opposed to apartheid
- anti-desiccant — a substance or material applied to a plant, as by spraying, to inhibit moisture loss during transplanting.
- anti-diarrheal — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- anti-dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
- anti-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- anti-oxidizing — to convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen.