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

  • creme d'ananas — a liqueur flavored with pineapple.
  • creme de cacao — a sweet liqueur with a chocolate flavour
  • 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.
  • cross-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
  • cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
  • cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
  • 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.
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • cryptosporidia — Plural form of cryptosporidium.
  • 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
  • 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
  • cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
  • 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 glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
  • cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
  • dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
  • dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
  • dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
  • dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • 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
  • darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
  • 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
  • dead reckoning — a method of establishing one's position using the distance and direction travelled rather than astronomical observations
  • dead-air space — an unventilated air space in which the air does not circulate.
  • deadly embrace — deadlock
  • decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
  • decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
  • decentralizing — Present participle of decentralize.
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
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