14-letter words containing c, l, e, i, d
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- functionalised — to make functional.
- functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
- galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
- get with child — to make pregnant
- 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
- glycemic index — a system that ranks foods by the speeds at which their carbohydrates are converted into glucose in the body; a measure of the effects of foods on blood-sugar levels.
- golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- 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.
- 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.
- hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
- 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
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- 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.
- hollerith code — a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.
- hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.
- hydraulic pile — a hollow pile through which a jet of water is forced to wash away the ground beneath.
- hydrocephaloid — resembling hydrocephalus.
- hydrochlorides — Plural form of hydrochloride.
- hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
- hypercivilized — Very highly civilized.
- hyperlipidemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; lipemia.
- hypodermically — By hypodermic means.
- idealistically — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
- identical twin — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
- idle character — a transmitted control character that holds a position but does not appear in the output at the receiver.
- Île de la cité — a natural island in the river Seine, in the centre of the city of Paris, France, the Île de la Cité is the location where the medieval city was refounded
- ill-considered — lacking thorough consideration; ill-suited; unwise.
- immethodically — Unmethodically.
- incandescently — (of light) produced by incandescence.
- inclined plane — one of the simple machines, a plane surface inclined to the horizon, or forming with a horizontal plane any angle but a right angle. Compare machine (def 4b).
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
- incredibleness — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
- indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- indelicateness — The quality of being indelicate; indelicacy.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.