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

  • salade niçoise — a cold dish consisting of hard-boiled eggs, anchovy fillets, olives, tomatoes, tuna fish, etc
  • sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • scalar product — inner product (def 1).
  • school edition — a special edition of a book for distribution to schools or colleges, subject to a special rate of discount, sometimes without a dust jacket (distinguished from trade edition).
  • school of mind — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the original unity of all things, to be grasped through the perfect attainment of jen.
  • schoolchildren — a child attending school.
  • secondary cell — storage cell.
  • secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
  • sedimentologic — of or relating to sedimentology
  • selenious acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous powder, H 2 SeO 3 , used chiefly as a reagent.
  • self-collected — having or showing self-control; composed; self-possessed.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-condemned — to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong disapproval of; censure.
  • self-confessed — openly admitting to being a type of person with a particular quality, habit, character, etc.: He's a self-confessed gambler.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-contented — contented with what one is or has
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
  • self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
  • shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
  • shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
  • slalom descent — a winding descent
  • slate-coloured — like slate in colour
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • social dancing — dancing performed by couples or by groups, usually as a form of recreation.
  • social disease — a venereal disease.
  • social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • social studies — a course of instruction in an elementary or secondary school comprising such subjects as history, geography, civics, etc.
  • sodium lactate — a water-soluble, hygroscopic salt, C 3 H 5 NaO 3 , used in solution in medicine to treat metabolic acidosis, usually by injection.
  • solar calendar — a calendar whose dates are based on the position of the earth and its proximity to the sun
  • soldier orchid — a European orchid, Orchis militaris, having pale purple flowers with a four-lobed lower lip
  • solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
  • solidification — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
  • solids recycle — Solids recycle is the return of solids to a liquid-solid operation so that they can be processed or used again.
  • sounding-block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
  • speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
  • split decision — a decision of a bout on whose outcome the referee and judges did not unanimously agree.
  • straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
  • studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
  • 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.
  • sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
  • tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
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