14-letter words containing d, a, r, c
- chevra kadisha — a Jewish burial society, usually composed of unpaid volunteers who provide funerals for members of their congregation
- chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
- chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
- china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
- chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
- chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
- chloride paper — a relatively slow printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride: used mostly for contact prints.
- chlorothiazide — a diuretic drug administered orally in the treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease and hypertension. Formula: C7H6ClN3O4S2
- chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
- chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
- chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
- chondrichthian — any member of the class Chondrichthyes, comprising the cartilaginous fishes.
- chondrocranium — the cartilaginous structure that, in early development, envelops the brain
- chondromalacia — degeneration of cartilage in the knee, usually caused by excessive wear between the patella and lower end of the femur.
- chondromatosis — a painful and immobilizing condition that affects the joints, in particular the elbow, hip, and knee joints, and results in the synovial tissue becoming cartilaginous
- chondrosarcoma — A type of bone cancer, a cartilage-based tumour.
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- chordamesoderm — a kind of mesoderm that develops into the notochord
- christmas card — Christmas cards are cards with greetings, which people send to their friends and family at Christmas.
- chromodynamics — a theory that describes how gluons and their forces bind quarks together to form protons, neutrons, etc.
- cigarette card — a small picture card, formerly given away with cigarettes, now collected as a hobby
- circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
- circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
- ciudad bolivar — a port in E Venezuela, on the Orinoco River: accessible to ocean-going vessels. Pop: 344 000 (2005 est)
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- clamshell door — Often, clamshell doors. a door consisting of two panels that spread open vertically, as those located on the underside of some cargo planes.
- clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
- clarendon code — four acts passed by the Cavalier Parliament between 1661 and 1665 to deal with the religious problems of the Restoration
- claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
- clean and jerk — a lift in which a barbell is raised from the floor to shoulder height where it is brought to rest and then, with a lunging movement by the lifter, is thrust overhead so the arms extend straight in the air, being held in this position for a short, specified length of time.
- clean-and-jerk — a lift in weightlifting in which the weight is held momentarily at shoulder height before being thrust overhead
- cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
- closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
- coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
- coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
- cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
- collateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralise.
- collateralized — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralize.
- colorado river — a state in the W United States. 104,247 sq. mi. (270,000 sq. km). Capital: Denver. Abbreviation: CO (for use with zip code), Col., Colo.
- colorado topaz — a tawny-coloured form of topaz found in Colorado
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
- commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialized — spoiled by commercial exploitation; degraded
- common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
- community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt