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14-letter words containing c, o, d, e

  • associated gas — Associated gas is raw natural gas that comes through crude oil wells.
  • at second hand — If you experience something at second hand, you are told about it by other people rather than experiencing it yourself.
  • atlas autocode — (language)   The Autocode for the Ferranti Atlas, which may have been the first commercial computer with hardware-paged virtual memory. Whereas other autocodes were basically assembly languages, Atlas Autocode was high-level and block-structured, resembling a cross between Fortran and ALGOL 60. It had call-by value, loops, declarations, complex numbers, pointers, heap and stack storage generators, dynamic arrays, and extensible syntax.
  • atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audio-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
  • audiocassettes — Plural form of audiocassette.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • autodestructed — Simple past tense and past participle of autodestruct.
  • autopilot code — (jargon, humour)   Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
  • award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
  • back o' beyond — remote; out-of-the-way; isolated.
  • back of beyond — a very remote place
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • ballroom dance — a social dance, popular since the beginning of the 20th century, in conventional rhythms, such as the foxtrot and the quickstep
  • barcode reader — A barcode reader is an electronic scanning machine that reads and sends barcode information.
  • basidiomycetes — Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs.
  • beach wormwood — a composite plant, Artemisia stellerana, having yellow flowers and deeply lobed leaves covered with dense white fuzz.
  • bearded collie — a medium-sized breed of dog having a profuse long straight coat, usually grey or fawn and often with white on the head, legs, and chest, a long tail, and a distinctive beard
  • benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
  • berberidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Berberidaceae, a mainly N temperate family of flowering plants (mostly shrubs), including barberry and barrenwort
  • bermuda collar — a narrow, pointed collar on a woman's dress or blouse
  • beta reduction — [lambda-calculus] The application of a lambda abstraction to an argument expression. A copy of the body of the lambda abstraction is made and occurrences of the bound variable being replaced by the argument. E.g. (\ x . x+1) 4 --> 4+1 Beta reduction is the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus. The opposite of beta reduction is beta abstraction. These are the two kinds of beta conversion. See also name capture.
  • beyond compare — If you describe something as beyond compare, you mean that it is extremely good or extremely great.
  • birdcage clock — lantern clock.
  • block calendar — a calendar in the form of a block of sheets each printed with the date of one day
  • bodice-ripping — A bodice-ripping film or novel is one which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes. You use this word especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • body corporate — a group of persons incorporated to carry out a specific enterprise
  • body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
  • bomber command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to tactical and strategic bombing, esp during WWII
  • botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
  • boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
  • boundary fence — a fence between properties
  • bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
  • boxed comments — (programming)   Comments that occupy several lines by themselves; so called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style similar to this: /************************************************* * * This is a boxed comment in C style * *************************************************/ Common variants of this style omit the asterisks in column 2 or add a matching row of asterisks closing the right side of the box. The sparest variant omits all but the comment delimiters themselves; the "box" is implied. Opposite of winged comments.
  • bradford score — a measure of the amount of time during which an employee is absent from work, based on assigning a number of points according to the frequency and length of absences
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
  • cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
  • cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
  • cagayan de oro — city in E Mindanao, in the Philippines; pop. 340,000
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