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14-letter words containing d, o, n

  • chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • chromodynamics — a theory that describes how gluons and their forces bind quarks together to form protons, neutrons, etc.
  • cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
  • city of dundee — a council area in E Scotland. Pop: 143 090 (2003 est). Area: 65 sq km (25 sq miles)
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • clarendon code — four acts passed by the Cavalier Parliament between 1661 and 1665 to deal with the religious problems of the Restoration
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • closed cornice — a slightly projecting wooden cornice composed of a frieze board and a crown molding without a soffit.
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
  • coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • code of honour — the standards of behaviour regarded as proper
  • code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
  • coffee grinder — A coffee grinder is a machine for grinding coffee beans.
  • coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
  • coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • colorblindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • 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).
  • commandantship — the office of a commandant
  • commodiousness — The state or quality of being commodious.
  • commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
  • common divisor — a number that is a submultiple of all the numbers of a given set.
  • 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
  • community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
  • company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
  • compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
  • compound meter — any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.
  • compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
  • compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
  • compound-wound — noting an electric device in which part of the field circuit is in parallel with the armature circuit and part is in series with it.
  • comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
  • comprehendible — comprehensible
  • concentratedly — with intense mental application
  • conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
  • condemned cell — A condemned cell is a prison cell for someone who is going to be executed.
  • condensational — Of or pertaining to condensation.
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