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

  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
  • garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
  • glacial period — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • glycaemic load — an index indicating the amount of carbohydrate contained in a specified serving of a particular food. It is calculated by multiplying the food's glycaemic index by its carbohydrate content in grams and then dividing by 100
  • glyceraldehyde — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , that is an intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism and yields glycerol on reduction.
  • golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
  • gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
  • goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
  • gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
  • grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • half-concealed — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
  • half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hard-core porn — Hard-core porn is pornography that shows sex in a very detailed way, or shows very violent or unpleasant sex.
  • hardshell clam — quahog.
  • hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
  • harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
  • heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter pad — landing area
  • hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
  • hepatectomized — That has undergone hepatectomy.
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
  • highly charged — electrical
  • hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
  • hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
  • hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
  • hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
  • hydrocephaloid — resembling hydrocephalus.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
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