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14-letter words containing d, e, n, a

  • aegean islands — the islands of the Aegean Sea, including the Cyclades, Dodecanese, Euboea, and Sporades. The majority are under Greek administration
  • aerodynamicist — an expert in aerodynamics.
  • aerohydroplane — a vehicle that can function both as a motorboat and as an aircraft
  • aforementioned — If you refer to the aforementioned person or subject, you mean the person or subject that has already been mentioned.
  • age difference — a disparity in ages between two people
  • aggrandisement — an act or instance of aggrandizing, or increasing in size, or intensity: aggrandizement of mercantile trade in the early colonies.
  • aggrandizement — If someone does something for aggrandizement, they do it in order to get power, wealth, and importance for themselves.
  • agnes de mille — Agnes (George) 1908–93, U.S. choreographer and dancer (niece of Cecil B. De Mille).
  • air-raid siren — a device that sounds an alarm to warn people when an air raid is expected
  • airconditioned — Alternative spelling of air-conditioned.
  • airconditioner — Alternative form of air conditioner.
  • airman's medal — a U.S. Air Force award for heroism, not involving combat, available to any member of the U.S. or friendly armed forces serving with the USAF.
  • aladdin's cave — a place containing fabulous riches
  • album-oriented — of or designating a format featuring rock songs from LPs and CDs rather than singles, especially mainstream rock music.
  • alexander city — a city in E Alabama.
  • alexander viii — (Pietro Ottoboni) 1610–91, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1689–91.
  • alfred t mahan — Alfred Thayer [they-er] /ˈθeɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1840–1914, U.S. naval officer and writer on naval history.
  • alfred wegener — Alfred Lothar [ahl-freyt loh-tahr,, loh-tahr] /ˈɑl freɪt ˈloʊ tɑr,, loʊˈtɑr/ (Show IPA), 1880–1930, German meteorologist and geophysicist: originated theory of continental drift.
  • alive and well — If you say that someone or something is alive and well, you are emphasizing that they continue to survive.
  • all year round — If something happens all year round, it happens throughout the year.
  • almond essence — a concentrated liquid obtained from almonds, used in cooking and baking
  • almond extract — oil, essence
  • aluminohydride — (inorganic compound) The univalent anion, AlH4-, present in such compounds as lithium aluminium hydride.
  • aluminum oxide — alumina
  • american dream — the U.S. ideal according to which equality of opportunity permits any American to aspire to high attainment and material success
  • aminoglycoside — of or relating to amino sugars in glycosidic linkage.
  • aminopeptidase — an enzyme produced by the glands of the small intestine
  • amusement ride — a device at a fair, theme park, etc that people can ride in
  • anacardiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Anacardiaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees and shrubs many of which have edible drupes. The family includes the cashew, mango, pistachio, and sumach
  • anagrammatized — Simple past tense and past participle of anagrammatize.
  • analyzed rhyme — the use of assonance and consonance in a complex pattern at the ends of alternate lines of a quatrain, as in head, mat, met, had.
  • anchorage dues — money paid so that a ship can anchor somewhere
  • ancient wisdom — pre-Christian knowledge, philosophy, and beliefs
  • and everything — You say 'and everything' after mentioning a particular thing or list of things to indicate that they are only examples and that other things are also involved.
  • and no mistake — certainly
  • andhra pradesh — a state of SE India, on the Bay of Bengal: formed in 1953 from parts of Tamil Nadu (then called Madras) and Hyderabad states. Capital: Hyderabad. Pop: 75 727 541 (2001). Area: about 275 068 sq km (106 204 sq miles)
  • andrew jackson — Andrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
  • andrew johnson — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
  • andrew project — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at Carnegie Mellon University, named after Andrew Carnegie, an American philanthropist who provided money to establish CMU. See also Andrew File System, Andrew Message System, Andrew Toolkit, class.
  • andrew toolkit — (tool)   (ATK) A portable user interface toolkit developed as part of the Andrew project, running on the X Window System and distributed with X11R5.
  • androcephalous — having a human head
  • androdioecious — (of a plant species) having hermaphrodite and male flowers on separate plants
  • andromedotoxin — a poisonous substance found in various plants of the family Ericaceae, and in particular in plants of the genus Andromeda
  • andromonoecism — the condition of being andromonoecious
  • andy tanenbaum — Andrew Tanenbaum
  • angelic doctor — an epithet of Saint Thomas Aquinas
  • angle of slide — the minimum slope, measured in degrees from the horizontal, at which loose solid material will start to slide or flow.
  • animadversions — Plural form of animadversion.
  • antediluvially — in antediluvian times, in times before the Flood
  • antennal gland — green gland.
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