14-letter words containing c, r, o, s, n, d
- north cascades — a national park in NW Washington: site of glaciers and mountain lakes. 789 sq. mi. (2043 sq. km).
- ordinary stock — British. common stock.
- ordnance corps — a combat support military unit responsible for developing and maintaining weapons and weapon systems
- osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
- panic disorder — a disorder in which inappropriate, intense apprehension and physical symptoms of fear occur so frequently as to produce significant impairment.
- polar distance — codeclination.
- postproduction — (in motion pictures, recording, etc.) the technical processes, as cutting, editing, and post-synchronization, necessary to ready a filmed or recorded work for sale or exhibition.
- pre-discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- preadolescence — the period preceding adolescence, usually designated as the years from 10 to 13.
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- propagandistic — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- prosthodontics — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- pseudo-generic — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- pseudoscorpion — any of several small arachnids of the order Chelonethida that resemble a tailless scorpion and that feed chiefly on small insects.
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
- recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
- ridiculousness — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
- sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
- sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
- scented orchid — a slender orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, with fragrant pink flowers carried in a dense spike and having a three-lobed lip; found in calcareous turf
- schoolchildren — a child attending school.
- scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
- screen goddess — a film actress who is adored or idealized, esp by men
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
- second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.
- secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- secondary cell — storage cell.
- secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
- secondary road — a road less important than a main road or highway.
- secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
- serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
- size reduction — Size reduction is a process in which the particle size of a solid is made smaller.
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
- sock suspender — garter (def 1).
- solar calendar — a calendar whose dates are based on the position of the earth and its proximity to the sun
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- standard score — the test score of a participant expressed as the deviation of the score from the mean score of the sample in units of standard deviation.
- stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.