14-letter words containing c, o, l, d, e, r
- dongle cracker — (security) Someone who enables software that has been written to require a dongle to run without it.
- door-key child — latchkey child.
- doppler effect — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- double deckers — (jargon) Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- drop a clanger — If you say that you have dropped a clanger, you mean that you have done or said something stupid or embarrassing.
- duodenal ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
- duplex process — any of several methods for making steel in which the process is begun in one furnace and finished in another.
- dust collector — A dust collector is a vessel or piece of equipment for the removal of dust from a gas.
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- electrodeposit — To deposit by means of electrodeposition.
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- electrogilding — electroplating using gold
- electron model — (electronics) A model of semiconductor behaviour in which donors contribute the charge of an electron, and acceptors contribute a space for same, in effect contributing a fictional positive charge of similiar magnitude. Physicists use the electron model. Some language theorists consider language and the electron to be models in themselves. Contrast hole model.
- electropainted — Painted electrophoretically.
- electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
- eleventh chord — a chord much used in jazz, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, and eleventh above the root
- enclosed order — a Christian religious order that does not permit its members to go into the outside world
- ethyl chloride — a colorless liquid, C2H5Cl, prepared by heating ethyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride in the presence of zinc chloride: used in preparing tetraethyl lead and ethyl cellulose, and as a local anesthetic
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
- field of force — the region of space surrounding a body, such as a charged particle or a magnet, within which it can exert a force on another similar body not in contact with it
- firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
- firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
- flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
- forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- 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.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
- 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
- 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.
- honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
- hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
- hydrocellulose — a gelatinous substance obtained by the partial hydrolysis of cellulose, used chiefly in the manufacture of paper, mercerized cotton, and viscose rayon.
- hydrocephaloid — resembling hydrocephalus.
- hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
- hydrochlorides — Plural form of hydrochloride.