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14-letter words containing c, r, e, d

  • 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-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-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.
  • crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
  • 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.
  • 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
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
  • culture medium — a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown
  • cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
  • cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
  • cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
  • 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.
  • cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
  • cylinder liner — A cylinder liner is a thin-walled hard metal cylinder inserted into a cylinder block of an engine and in which the piston runs.
  • cylinder press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
  • cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
  • dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
  • dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
  • 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.
  • dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
  • dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
  • data hierarchy — The system of data objects which provide the methods for information storage and retrieval. Broadly, a data hierarchy may be considered to be either natural, which arises from the alphabet or syntax of the language in which the information is expressed, or machine, which reflects the facilities of the computer, both hardware and software. A natural data hierarchy might consist of bits, characters, words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. One might use components bound to an application, such as field, record, and file, and these would ordinarily be further specified by having data descriptors such as name field, address field, etc. On the other hand, a machine or software system might use bit, byte, word, block, partition, channel, and port. Programming languages often provide types or objects which can create data hierarchies of arbitrary complexity, thus allowing software system designers to model language structures described by the linguist to greater or lesser degree. The distinction between the natural form of data and the facilities provided by the machine may be obscure, because users force their needs into the molds provided, and programmers change machine designs. As an example, the natural data type "character" and the machine type "byte" are often used interchangeably, because the latter has evolved to meet the need of representing the former.
  • data processor — a computer that is capable of performing operations on data in order to extract information, reorder files, etc
  • data structure — an organized form, such as an array list or string, in which connected data items are held in a computer
  • dataparallel-c — (language, parallel)   C with parallel extensions by Hatcher and Quinn of the University of New Hampshire. Dataparallel-C was based on an early version of C* and runs on the Intel iPSC-2 and nCube.
  • date of record — the final date a registered stockholder of a corporation has the right to receive a dividend or other benefit.
  • dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
  • daycare centre — an establishment offering daycare to preschool children, enabling their parents to work full time or have extended relief if child care is a problem
  • daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
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