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14-letter words containing d, s, n

  • and no mistake — certainly
  • andhra pradesh — a state of SE India, on the Bay of Bengal: formed in 1953 from parts of Tamil Nadu (then called Madras) and Hyderabad states. Capital: Hyderabad. Pop: 75 727 541 (2001). Area: about 275 068 sq km (106 204 sq miles)
  • andrew jackson — Andrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
  • andrew johnson — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
  • androcephalous — having a human head
  • androdioecious — (of a plant species) having hermaphrodite and male flowers on separate plants
  • andromonoecism — the condition of being andromonoecious
  • angle of slide — the minimum slope, measured in degrees from the horizontal, at which loose solid material will start to slide or flow.
  • animadversions — Plural form of animadversion.
  • anisodactylous — Zoology. having the toes unlike, or unequal in number.
  • antaphrodisiac — Capable of reducing the sex drive.
  • anti-desiccant — a substance or material applied to a plant, as by spraying, to inhibit moisture loss during transplanting.
  • anti-dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
  • antidepressant — An antidepressant is a drug which is used to treat people who are suffering from depression.
  • antidepression — alleviating or preventing depression
  • antifederalism — Alternative form of anti-federalism.
  • antifederalist — a person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 and thereafter allied with Thomas Jefferson's Antifederal Party, which opposed extension of the powers of the federal Government
  • antiquatedness — The state or quality of being antiquated.
  • antiradicalism — the opposition to radicalism
  • antispasmodics — Plural form of antispasmodic.
  • appendectomies — Plural form of appendectomy.
  • apple islander — a native or inhabitant of Tasmania
  • apsidal motion — the rotation of the major axis of an eccentric orbit in the plane of the orbit.
  • 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)
  • archimandrites — Plural form of archimandrite.
  • ardent spirits — spirits, such as rum, whisky, etc
  • arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
  • as good as new — If you say that something or someone is as good as new, you mean that they are in a very good condition or state, especially after they have been damaged or ill.
  • 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
  • aswan high dam — a dam on the Nile forming a reservoir (Lake Nasser) extending 480 km (300 miles) from the First to the Third Cataracts: opened in 1971, it was built 6 km (4 miles) upstream from the old Aswan Dam (built in 1902 and twice raised). Height of dam: 109 m (365 ft)
  • at a loose end — If you are at a loose end, you are bored because you do not have anything to do and cannot think of anything that you want to do. In American English, you usually say that you are at loose ends.
  • at second hand — If you experience something at second hand, you are told about it by other people rather than experiencing it yourself.
  • 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
  • auld lang syne — Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish song about friendship that is traditionally sung as clocks strike midnight on New Year's Eve.
  • austrian blind — a window blind consisting of rows of vertically gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • 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.
  • autoresponders — Plural form of autoresponder.
  • axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • backhandedness — The quality of being backhanded; the use of indirect tactics.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • ballistic wind — a single wind vector that would have the same net effect on the trajectory of a projectile as the varying winds encountered in flight.
  • ballon d'essai — a project or policy put forward experimentally to gauge reactions to it
  • bang's disease — a type of infectious brucellosis affecting cattle, caused by a bacterium (Brucella abortus) and often resulting in abortion
  • banker's draft — A banker's draft is the same as a bank draft.
  • banker's order — pay order, banker's cheque
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