14-letter words containing c, i, n, d, e, r
- crepe de chine — a very thin crepe of silk or a similar light fabric
- cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- cross-dressing — the wearing of clothes normally associated with the opposite sex
- cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
- cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
- cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
- cylinder block — the metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling channels or fins of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
- cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- cylinder liner — A cylinder liner is a thin-walled hard metal cylinder inserted into a cylinder block of an engine and in which the piston runs.
- cylinder press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- decentralizing — Present participle of decentralize.
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decolorization — decolor.
- decommissioner — a person who decommissions a ship, nuclear reactor, etc
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
- 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.
- 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.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- dendritic cell — a branching cell of the lymph nodes, blood, and spleen that functions as a network trapping foreign protein.
- denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
- dennis ritchie — (person) Dennis M. Ritchie, co-author of the Unix operating system, inventor of the C programming language and demigod. See also K&R, Core War, If you want X, you know where to find it.
- denuclearizing — Present participle of denuclearize.
- depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
- desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
- device control — (character) One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
- 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)
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2