14-letter words containing d, y, e
- blue-eyed soul — soul music written and performed by White singers in a style derived from the blues
- body beautiful — a beautiful body
- body corporate — a group of persons incorporated to carry out a specific enterprise
- body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
- bonded-whiskey — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- born yesterday — brought forth by birth.
- boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
- boundary fence — a fence between properties
- boundary layer — the layer of fluid closest to the surface of a solid past which the fluid flows: it has a lower rate of flow than the bulk of the fluid because of its adhesion to the solid
- boundary rider — an employee on a sheep or cattle station whose job is to maintain fences in good repair and to prevent stock from straying
- boundary value — boundary value analysis
- boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
- bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
- brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
- budgetary year — the financial year a budget is drawn up for
- buteyko method — a breath control technique used to prevent hyperventilation and treat asthma without drugs
- butterfly weed — a North American asclepiadaceous plant, Asclepias tuberosa (or A. decumbens), having flat-topped clusters of bright orange flowers
- butyl aldehyde — butyraldehyde
- by the vanload — in very large quantities
- cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
- cagayan de oro — city in E Mindanao, in the Philippines; pop. 340,000
- calgary redeye — a drink consisting of a mixture of beer and tomato juice.
- caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
- campeachy wood — wood from the Central American tree Haematoxylon campechianum
- carotid artery — A carotid artery is one of the two arteries in the neck that supply the head with blood.
- cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
- catty-cornered — cater-cornered
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- checkered lily — a lily, Fritillaria meleagris, native to Europe, having solitary, checkered, red-purple flowers mottled with greenish yellow.
- cherry orchard — an orchard planted in cherry trees
- children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
- 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.
- chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
- choledochotomy — incision of the common bile duct.
- city of dundee — a council area in E Scotland. Pop: 143 090 (2003 est). Area: 65 sq km (25 sq miles)
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- 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
- coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
- concentratedly — with intense mental application
- condensed type — a typeface narrower than the standard type for the series
- condescendency — Condescendence.
- confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- copper cyanide — a creamy-white, highly poisonous, water-insoluble powder, CuCN, used chiefly in electroplating and in organic synthesis.
- copy and paste — to copy (information in a computer document) and put it somewhere else in the document
- correspondency — correspondence
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.