14-letter words containing d, i, m, e, n
- cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
- 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)
- 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.
- cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- 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.
- 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 soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
- compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- 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.
- cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- dandie dinmont — a breed of small terrier with a long coat and drooping ears
- data modelling — data model
- decamillennial — Occurring every ten thousand years.
- 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
- 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.
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- decriminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decriminalize.
- decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
- 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.
- delegitimizing — Present participle of delegitimize.
- demand deposit — a bank deposit from which withdrawals may be made without notice
- demand feeding — the practice of feeding a baby whenever it seems to be hungry, rather than at set intervals
- 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.
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- demilitarizing — Present participle of demilitarize.