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14-letter words containing c, a, u, l, d

  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • cream-coloured — cream in colour
  • crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
  • cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
  • deccan plateau — triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River
  • decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
  • 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.
  • denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • diurnal circle — the apparent circle described by a heavenly body as a result of one rotation by the earth.
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
  • documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • dracula, count — (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
  • dracunculiasis — a disease caused by infection with the Guinea worm
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • ductless gland — endocrine gland.
  • duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
  • dutch colonial — of or relating to the domestic architecture of Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey, often characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves over porches on the long sides.
  • dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
  • eau de cologne — cologne.
  • educationalist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • exclude a risk — If an insurance company excludes a risk, they declare that a particular risk is not covered by an insurance policy.
  • expected value — the sum or integral of all possible values of a random variable, or any given function of it, multiplied by the respective probabilities of the values of the variable. Symbol: E(X). E(X) is the mean of the distribution; E(X–c) = E(X)–c where c is a constant
  • field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • 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.
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
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