14-letter words containing d, e, i, s, t, c
- conductivities — Plural form of conductivity.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- considerations — Plural form of consideration.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- coordinateness — The state, quality or condition of being coordinate.
- corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
- corticosteroid — any steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex that affects carbohydrate, protein, and electrolyte metabolism, gonad function, and immune response
- cottonseed oil — a yellowish or dark red oil with a nutlike smell, extracted or expelled from cottonseed, used in cooking and in the manufacture of paints, soaps, etc
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- credit squeeze — the control of credit facilities as an instrument of economic policy, associated with restrictions on bank loans and overdrafts, raised interest rates, etc
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- 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.
- 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.
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- decimal system — the number system in general use, having a base of ten, in which numbers are expressed by combinations of the ten digits 0 to 9
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- defect density — (programming) The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
- dennis ritchie — (person) Dennis M. Ritchie, co-author of the Unix operating system, inventor of the C programming language and demigod. See also K&R, Core War, If you want X, you know where to find it.
- depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- describability — The quality of being describable.
- despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- dialectologist — a specialist in dialectology.
- diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
- dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
- dies committee — an early, informal name for the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- dipterocarpous — (of a tree) belonging to the genus Dipterocarpus or the family Dipterocarpaceae