14-letter words containing d, e, a, r
- cardiac arrest — A cardiac arrest is a heart attack.
- cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
- cardinal tetra — a small, brilliantly colored red and blue characin fish, Paracheirodon axelrodi, native to tropical forest streams in Brazil and Colombia: a popular aquarium fish.
- cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
- cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
- care attendant — (in Britain) a person who is paid to look after one or more severely handicapped people by visiting them frequently and staying when needed, but who does not live in
- carotid artery — A carotid artery is one of the two arteries in the neck that supply the head with blood.
- carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
- carriage drive — a private road for horse-drawn carriages, often connecting a house with a public road
- carriage trade — trade from the wealthy part of society
- carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
- cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
- cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
- cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
- cash dispenser — A cash dispenser is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account using a special card.
- cashier's desk — A cashier's desk is the same as a cash desk.
- casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
- catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
- cater-cornered — diagonally placed; diagonal
- cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
- cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
- cathodographer — a person trained in taking cathodographs
- cattle breeder — a person who breeds and raises cattle
- catty-cornered — cater-cornered
- celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
- cellular radio — radio communication based on a network of transmitters each serving a small area known as a cell: used in personal communications systems in which the mobile receiver switches frequencies automatically as it passes from one cell to another
- center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- cerro de pasco — a town in central Peru, in the Andes: one of the highest towns in the world, 4400 m (14 436 ft) above sea level; mining centre. Pop: 70 000 (latest est)
- cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
- certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
- character code — a machine-readable code that identifies a specified character or a set of such codes
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- charmed circle — If you refer to a group of people as a charmed circle, you mean that they seem to have special power or influence, and do not allow anyone else to join their group.
- chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
- chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
- checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
- cheddar cheese — a hard, smooth-textured cheese, made usually from the whole milk of cows and varying in color from white to deep yellow and in flavor from mild to sharp as it ages.
- chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
- cherry orchard — an orchard planted in cherry trees
- chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
- 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.