14-letter words containing c, a, s, n, d
- counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- creme d'ananas — a liqueur flavored with pineapple.
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
- death sentence — A death sentence is a punishment of death given by a judge to someone who has been found guilty of a serious crime such as murder.
- deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
- decay constant — the reciprocal of the decay time.
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
- 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.
- 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
- delectableness — The state or quality of being delectable.
- dental records — records produced during a dental examination and recording the state of a patient's teeth
- despicableness — The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
- despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- diagnostically — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- dirac constant — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10–34 joule seconds
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- disappearances — Plural form of disappearance.
- disapplication — a provision for exempting schools or individuals from the requirements of the National Curriculum in special circumstances
- disassociating — to dissociate.
- disassociation — to dissociate.
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- disciplinarian — a person who enforces or advocates discipline: The teacher was a formidable disciplinarian.