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14-letter words containing d, l, s

  • cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
  • cottonseed oil — a yellowish or dark red oil with a nutlike smell, extracted or expelled from cottonseed, used in cooking and in the manufacture of paints, soaps, etc
  • cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
  • crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
  • crested lizard — a long-tailed iguanid lizard, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, of arid areas in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, having a row of enlarged scales down the back.
  • critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
  • cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
  • cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
  • cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
  • crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • cuckold's knot — a hitch, as for holding a spar, consisting of a single loop with the overlapping parts of the rope seized together.
  • cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
  • cylinder press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
  • daddy longlegs — A daddy longlegs is a flying insect with very long legs.
  • daddy-longlegs — Also called harvestman. any of numerous spiderlike arachnids of the order Opiliones, having a compact rounded body and extremely long, slender legs.
  • daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
  • damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
  • daniel websterDaniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • de los angeles — Victoria (bikˈtorja). 1923–2005, Spanish soprano
  • decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
  • decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
  • decimal system — the number system in general use, having a base of ten, in which numbers are expressed by combinations of the ten digits 0 to 9
  • decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
  • decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
  • declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
  • decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
  • decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • deinstallation — The process of deinstalling.
  • delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
  • delayed speech — a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.
  • delectableness — The state or quality of being delectable.
  • deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
  • delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
  • delta aquarids — either of two collections of meteors comprising meteor showers having their apparent origin in the constellation Aquarius and visible either in early May (Eta Aquarids) or late July (Delta Aquarids)
  • dematerialised — Simple past tense and past participle of dematerialise.
  • dematerializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dematerialize.
  • demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
  • demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
  • demolitionists — Plural form of demolitionist.
  • demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
  • demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
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