14-letter words containing d, e, c, n
- cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
- cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
- cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
- cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
- cagayan de oro — city in E Mindanao, in the Philippines; pop. 340,000
- calculatedness — the state of being calculated
- calendar clock — a clock that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time, and sometimes indicates the phases of the moon and other periodical data.
- calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
- calendar watch — a watch that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time.
- camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
- campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
- campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
- canada hemlock — a hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, of eastern North America, having horizontal branches that often droop to the ground: the state tree of Pennsylvania.
- canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
- canadian river — a river in the southern US, rising in NE New Mexico and flowing east to the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. Length: 1458 km (906 miles)
- canceled check — a check that has been redeemed by a bank and then usually returned to the issuer.
- candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
- cape cod canal — a canal in SE Massachusetts, connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- carbon dioxide — Carbon dioxide is a gas. It is produced by animals and people breathing out, and by chemical reactions.
- 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
- carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
- case and paste — (programming) (From "cut and paste") The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes. This usually results in gross violation of the fundamental programming tenet, Don't Repeat Yourself. Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using "case" statements. Leads to software bloat. In some circles of Emacs users this is called "programming by Meta-W", because Meta-W is the Emacs command for copying a block of text to a kill buffer in preparation to pasting it in elsewhere. The term is condescending, implying that the programmer is acting mindlessly rather than thinking carefully about what is required to integrate the code for two similar cases. At DEC, this is sometimes called "clone-and-hack" coding.
- 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.
- casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
- cater-cornered — diagonally placed; diagonal
- catty-cornered — cater-cornered
- celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
- center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
- 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.
- cephalic index — the ratio of the greatest width of the human head to its greatest length, multiplied by 100
- cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
- 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.
- chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
- 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
- chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
- chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
- 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
- chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
- chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
- chondrophorine — relating to chondrophores
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water