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14-letter words containing c, i, d, a, r, s

  • serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
  • sick and tired — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
  • slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • sodium citrate — a white, crystalline or granular, water-soluble, odorless solid, Na 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, having a cool, saline taste: used in photography, in soft drinks, and in medicine chiefly to prevent the coagulation of blood.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • spermatic cord — the cord by which a testis is suspended in the scrotum, containing the vas deferens and the blood vessels and nerves of the testis.
  • square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
  • squared circle — a wrestling ring
  • squared splice — square splice.
  • stage director — a person who directs a theatrical production.
  • standard pitch — concert pitch
  • stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
  • stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
  • stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
  • strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
  • structuralized — to form into or make part of a structure.
  • sulfurous acid — a colorless liquid, H 2 SO 3 , having a suffocating odor, obtained by dissolving sulfur dioxide in water, known mainly by its salts, which are sulfites: used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a bleach.
  • sulphuric acid — Sulphuric acid is a colourless, oily, and very powerful acid.
  • teacher's aide — A teacher's aide is a person who helps a teacher in a school classroom but who is not a qualified teacher.
  • tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • traffic island — a raised or marked-off area between lanes of a roadway, used by pedestrians to get out of the flow of traffic, as a place for traffic signals, for separating lanes, etc.
  • transductional — of or relating to transduction
  • trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
  • ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
  • un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • uncrystallized — lacking a final form
  • underinsurance — insurance purchased against damage or loss of property in an amount less than its true value, sometimes bought intentionally by the insured with full knowledge of the risk.
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
  • urban district — a minor administrative division in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, with local self-government by a district council, but lacking the charter of a borough.
  • vacuum residue — Vacuum residue is the substance which is obtained by vacuum distillation (= a process of separating substances by reducing pressure to less than atmospheric pressure).
  • valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
  • well-practised — having or having been habitually or frequently practised in order to improve skill or quality
  • wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
  • windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
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