14-letter words containing d, s, p
- cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
- closed couplet — a couplet that concludes with an end-stopped line.
- closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
- co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
- colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
- commandantship — the office of a commandant
- compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
- compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
- compusult ltd. — A computer consulting firm (in Newfoundland, Canada?) that provides a public access Unix.
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- condensed type — a typeface narrower than the standard type for the series
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
- copy and paste — to copy (information in a computer document) and put it somewhere else in the document
- corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
- correspondence — Correspondence is the act of writing letters to someone.
- correspondency — correspondence
- correspondents — Plural form of correspondent.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
- cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
- cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
- cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum
- cryptosporidia — Plural form of cryptosporidium.
- custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
- cylinder press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- data processor — a computer that is capable of performing operations on data in order to extract information, reorder files, etc
- dead president — a banknote
- dead-air space — an unventilated air space in which the air does not circulate.
- 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
- deep structure — a representation of a sentence at a level where logical or grammatical relations are made explicit, before transformational rules have been applied
- deep-sea diver — a person who takes part in deep-sea diving
- 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.
- demand deposit — a bank deposit from which withdrawals may be made without notice
- dependableness — Dependability.
- depersonalised — Simple past tense and past participle of depersonalise.
- depersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of depersonalize.
- depersonalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depersonalize.
- deplorableness — The state or quality of being deplorable.
- depolarisation — Alternative spelling of depolarization.
- depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
- depressed area — a region where unemployment and a low standard of living prevail.
- depressiveness — The state of being depressive.
- depressurizing — Present participle of depressurize.
- depth of focus — the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances