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

  • commercialized — spoiled by commercial exploitation; degraded
  • common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
  • comprehendible — comprehensible
  • contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
  • corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
  • crocodile bird — an African courser, Pluvianus aegyptius, that lives close to rivers and is thought to feed on insects parasitic on crocodiles
  • crocodile clip — a clasp with serrated interlocking edges used for making electrical connections
  • cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
  • cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
  • cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • 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.
  • dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
  • decolorization — decolor.
  • delphic oracle — the oracle of Apollo at Delphi that gave answers held by the ancient Greeks to be of great authority but also noted for their ambiguity
  • democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • deparochialize — to make parochial.
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • dermatological — the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases.
  • 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.
  • diachronically — in a diachronic fashion
  • diaheliotropic — exhibiting diaheliotropism
  • dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
  • dictionary apl — Sharp APL
  • directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
  • disceptatorial — disputable
  • discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
  • discolorations — Plural form of discoloration.
  • discolouration — (UK) alternative spelling of discoloration.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconcertedly — In a disconcerted manner.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • discourteously — In a discourteous manner.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • door-key child — latchkey child.
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • driving school — vehicle operation lessons
  • 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.
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