14-letter words containing c, r, d
- counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- coup de foudre — a sudden and amazing action or event
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- court cupboard — a wooden stand with two or three tiers, used in the 16th and 17th centuries to display pewter, silver, etc
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- covered bridge — a bridge that is enclosed by a roof and walls.
- covered market — an indoor market
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- cream-coloured — cream in colour
- credence table — a small sideboard, originally one at which food was tasted for poison before serving
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
- credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- credit squeeze — the control of credit facilities as an instrument of economic policy, associated with restrictions on bank loans and overdrafts, raised interest rates, etc
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- creme d'ananas — a liqueur flavored with pineapple.
- creme de cacao — a sweet liqueur with a chocolate flavour
- crepe de chine — a very thin crepe of silk or a similar light fabric
- crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
- crested lizard — a long-tailed iguanid lizard, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, of arid areas in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, having a row of enlarged scales down the back.
- cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
- cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
- critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
- 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 bridging — bridging composed of crisscross pieces of wood.
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- cross-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- cross-dressing — the wearing of clothes normally associated with the opposite sex
- cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
- cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- 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.
- crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
- cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
- crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
- crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
- cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum