14-letter words containing d, i, m, e
- bedside manner — A doctor's bedside manner is the way in which they talk to their patients.
- bending moment — the algebraic sum of all the moments to one side of a cross-section of a beam or other structural support
- benzosulfimide — saccharin.
- bide sb's time — If you bide your time, you wait for a good opportunity before doing something.
- bidialectalism — the state of being bidialectal
- bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
- bioremediation — the use of plants to extract heavy metals from contaminated soils and water
- bladder ketmia — plant with pale yellow flowers
- bladder ketmie — flower-of-an-hour
- blended family — a social unit consisting of two previously married parents and the children of their former marriages
- body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
- bottom-feeding — the activities of a bottom feeder.
- bound moisture — Bound moisture is liquid in a solid, which exerts a vapor pressure that is less than the pure liquid would do at the same temperature.
- cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
- cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
- cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
- cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
- camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
- 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)
- cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
- certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
- certified milk — milk that is processed according to the sanitation standards in the area in which it is sold
- cevitamic acid — ascorbic acid
- charmed circle — If you refer to a group of people as a charmed circle, you mean that they seem to have special power or influence, and do not allow anyone else to join their group.
- child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
- 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.
- chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
- cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
- circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
- clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
- clitoridectomy — the surgical removal of the clitoris: a form of female circumcision, esp practised as a religious or ethnic rite
- closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
- clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
- colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
- 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).
- commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialized — spoiled by commercial exploitation; degraded
- 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
- compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
- computer-aided — done or improved by computer