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14-letter words containing c, o, n, d, t

  • credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
  • credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
  • cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
  • crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
  • cuckold's knot — a hitch, as for holding a spar, consisting of a single loop with the overlapping parts of the rope seized together.
  • custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • 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.
  • cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
  • dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
  • damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
  • dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
  • dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
  • dcc technology — DCC technology uses a catalytic process to convert heavy hydrocarbons into light olefins.
  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • decay constant — the reciprocal of the decay time.
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
  • decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
  • decimalization — Alternative spelling of decimalisation.
  • decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
  • decivilization — those people or nations that have reached such a state.
  • decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
  • decolonization — Decolonization means giving political independence to a country that was previously a colony.
  • decolorization — decolor.
  • decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
  • decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
  • deconcentrated — to reduce the power or control of (a corporation, industry, etc.); decentralize.
  • deconditioning — Present participle of decondition.
  • deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
  • deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
  • deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
  • deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
  • deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
  • decontaminated — Simple past tense and past participle of decontaminate.
  • decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
  • decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
  • decoration day — Memorial Day
  • decoration-day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
  • decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
  • decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delayed action — A delayed action mechanism causes a delay on the device it is fitted to, so that it does not work as soon as you switch it on or operate it.
  • delayed-action — (of an explosive projectile) exploding some time after hitting the target.
  • delocalization — to remove from the proper or usual locality.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
  • denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
  • dental records — records produced during a dental examination and recording the state of a patient's teeth
  • depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
  • depoliticizing — Present participle of depoliticize.
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