14-letter words containing d, e, n, o, m
- cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
- clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- come down with — If you come down with an illness, you get it.
- come to an end — to become completed or exhausted
- command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
- 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).
- commodiousness — The state or quality of being commodious.
- 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
- common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
- compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
- compound meter — any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- condemned cell — A condemned cell is a prison cell for someone who is going to be executed.
- condensed milk — Condensed milk is very thick sweetened milk that is sold in cans.
- conductometric — relating to the measurement of conductivity
- confidence man — A confidence man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them.
- consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
- cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- dandie dinmont — a breed of small terrier with a long coat and drooping ears
- data modelling — data model
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decimalization — Alternative spelling of decimalisation.
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- decommissioned — to remove or retire (a ship, airplane, etc.) from active service.
- decommissioner — a person who decommissions a ship, nuclear reactor, etc
- 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
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- decontaminated — Simple past tense and past participle of decontaminate.
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
- decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
- defeminization — (in a developing organism) the process in which full development into a female of the species is prevented because of a male developmental characteristic
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- dehumanization — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- delaine merino — one of an American strain of Merino sheep.
- delegitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- demand deposit — a bank deposit from which withdrawals may be made without notice
- demeclocycline — a broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 21 H 21 ClN 2 O 8 , derived from a mutant strain of the bacterium Streptomyces aureofaciens: used against a wide range of susceptible microorganisms.
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demobilization — to disband (troops, an army, etc.).