14-letter words containing e, d
- copper cyanide — a creamy-white, highly poisonous, water-insoluble powder, CuCN, used chiefly in electroplating and in organic synthesis.
- 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
- corporate bond — a bond issued by a corporation in order to increase its capital
- 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.
- corticosteroid — any steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex that affects carbohydrate, protein, and electrolyte metabolism, gonad function, and immune response
- cottage garden — an informal style of garden which has beds planted with a great variety of traditional flowers
- cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
- 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
- cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- counterchanged — Exchanged.
- countercharged — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharge.
- countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
- counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
- counterplotted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterplot.
- counterpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpoint.
- counterpunched — Simple past tense and past participle of counterpunch.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterstained — Simple past tense and past participle of counterstain.
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- coup de foudre — a sudden and amazing action or event
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- covered bridge — a bridge that is enclosed by a roof and walls.
- covered market — an indoor market
- 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.
- cream-coloured — cream in colour
- credence table — a small sideboard, originally one at which food was tasted for poison before serving
- credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
- credit account — a credit system by means of which customers may obtain goods and services before payment
- credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- credit squeeze — the control of credit facilities as an instrument of economic policy, associated with restrictions on bank loans and overdrafts, raised interest rates, etc
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- creme d'ananas — a liqueur flavored with pineapple.
- creme de cacao — a sweet liqueur with a chocolate flavour
- crepe de chine — a very thin crepe of silk or a similar light fabric
- 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.