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14-letter words containing c, a, d, e

  • decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
  • decorated shed — a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.
  • decoration day — Memorial Day
  • decoration-day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
  • decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate
  • decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
  • decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
  • decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • decriminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decriminalize.
  • decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
  • dedicated line — (communications)   A telephone line leased expressly for the purpose of connecting two users more-or-less permenantly.. Such lines may be "voice grade" which provides the bandwidth and signal to noise ratio of ordinary public switched telephone network circuits, or specified in ways which allow transport of suitably encoded digital signals at faster rates. In some cases, lines may be physical wires between the communicating parties. Over longer distances, it is common for the connection to be virtual, which means that although the two users can communicate only with each other, their signals and others are multiplexed, amplified, switched, scrambled, demultiplexed and so on in complex ways between the end points. This contrasts with a dial-up connection which is only opened when one end requires it.
  • deep hack mode — hack mode
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
  • delayed action — A delayed action mechanism causes a delay on the device it is fitted to, so that it does not work as soon as you switch it on or operate it.
  • delayed speech — a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.
  • delayed-action — (of an explosive projectile) exploding some time after hitting the target.
  • delectableness — The state or quality of being delectable.
  • delocalization — to remove from the proper or usual locality.
  • delphic oracle — the oracle of Apollo at Delphi that gave answers held by the ancient Greeks to be of great authority but also noted for their ambiguity
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • delta particle — a very short-lived hyperon
  • democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
  • denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
  • dental records — records produced during a dental examination and recording the state of a patient's teeth
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • deparochialize — to make parochial.
  • depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • dermatographic — relating to dermatography
  • dermatological — the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases.
  • dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
  • dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
  • descartes' law — Snell's law.
  • describability — The quality of being describable.
  • despicableness — The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
  • despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
  • detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
  • detention camp — a compound where prisoners are detained temporarily, as pending determination of their legal status under immigration laws.
  • detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
  • device manager — (operating system)   The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
  • devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
  • diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
  • diagenetically — in a diagenetic way
  • diaheliotropic — exhibiting diaheliotropism
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
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