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14-letter words containing d, i, e

  • antoine domino — Antoine ("Fats") born 1928, U.S. rhythm-and-blues pianist, singer, and composer.
  • appendectomies — Plural form of appendectomy.
  • appendicectomy — surgical removal of any appendage, esp the vermiform appendix
  • apple islander — a native or inhabitant of Tasmania
  • arabia deserta — an ancient division of Arabia, in the N part between Syria and Mesopotamia.
  • arabian desert — a desert in E Egypt, between the Nile, the Gulf of Suez, and the Red Sea: mountainous parts rise over 1800 m (6000 ft). Area: about 220 000 sq km (85 000 sq miles)
  • archaeocyathid — one of the marine invertebrates of the extinct phylum Archaeocyatha, widely distributed during the Cambrian Period, having a limy, typically conical or cylindrical skeleton composed of sievelike inner and outer walls.
  • archidiaconate — the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon
  • archimandrites — Plural form of archimandrite.
  • arctic redpoll — a finch, Carduelis hornemanni, of the family Fringillidae, which breeds in tundra birch forest
  • ardent spirits — spirits, such as rum, whisky, etc
  • area pellucida — the translucent central area of the blastoderm of birds and reptiles within which the embryo develops.
  • arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
  • articled clerk — a trainee solicitor bound by a written contract
  • artificialized — Simple past tense and past participle of artificialize.
  • ascending node — the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the north (opposed to descending node).
  • assistance dog — a dog that has been specially trained to live with and accompany a disabled person, carrying out such tasks as prompting them to take medication or assisting them to cross a road
  • assisted dying — the suicide of a person afflicted by an incurable disease, using a lethal dose of drugs provided by a physician for this purpose
  • assisted place — a place at a private school reserved for a pupil from a family with a low income, with the fees paid by the government
  • associated gas — Associated gas is raw natural gas that comes through crude oil wells.
  • at the outside — You use at the outside to say that you think that a particular amount is the largest possible in a particular situation, or that a particular time is the latest possible time for something to happen.
  • atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
  • audio-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
  • audiocassettes — Plural form of audiocassette.
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
  • autoantibodies — Plural form of autoantibody.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • autopilot code — (jargon, humour)   Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
  • autotetraploid — an individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of four copies of a single genome due to doubling of an ancestral chromosome complement
  • avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
  • aviation badge — wings.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
  • avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
  • axis of diesel — a name given to a bloc of countries (Russia, Iran, and Venezuela) whose reserves of oil enhance their political importance
  • axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • azidothymidine — an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
  • back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
  • backside cache — (hardware, processor)   An implementation of secondary cache memory that allows it to be directly accessed by the CPU. Backside cache is used by Apple Computers, Inc. in their PowerPC G3 processor. Previous PowerPC processors used the system bus to access both secondary cache and main memory. In the PowerPC G3 a dedicated bus handles only CPU/cache transactions. This bus can operate faster than the system bus thus improving the overall performance of the processor. The term apparently derives from the relocation of the secondary cache from the motherboard to the processor card itself, i.e. on the backside of the processor card.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • badger baiting — an illegal sport in which dogs are encouraged to draw a badger out of its burrow and attack it
  • balance bridge — a bascule bridge
  • ball cartridge — a cartridge containing a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder
  • ballon d'essai — a project or policy put forward experimentally to gauge reactions to it
  • balm of gilead — any of several trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora, esp C. opobalsamum of Africa and W Asia, that yield a fragrant oily resin
  • balm-of-gilead — any of several plants of the genus Commiphora, especially C. opobalsamum and C. meccanensis, which yield a fragrant oleoresin.
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