14-letter words containing e, d
- cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
- cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
- critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
- crocodile bird — an African courser, Pluvianus aegyptius, that lives close to rivers and is thought to feed on insects parasitic on crocodiles
- crocodile clip — a clasp with serrated interlocking edges used for making electrical connections
- cross-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- cross-dressing — the wearing of clothes normally associated with the opposite sex
- cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
- cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
- crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
- crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
- cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
- crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
- crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
- culture medium — a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown
- cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
- cut sheet feed — the automatic movement of single sheets of paper through the platen of the printer
- cut the comedy — to stop joking
- cut-off device — a device that terminates the flow or supply of something
- cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
- cutting garden — a household flower garden planted solely for growing flowers that are to be cut and displayed indoors.
- cyanoguanidine — dicyandiamide.
- cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
- cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- cylinder block — the metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling channels or fins of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
- cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- cylinder liner — A cylinder liner is a thin-walled hard metal cylinder inserted into a cylinder block of an engine and in which the piston runs.
- cylinder press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- daddy longlegs — A daddy longlegs is a flying insect with very long legs.
- daddy-longlegs — Also called harvestman. any of numerous spiderlike arachnids of the order Opiliones, having a compact rounded body and extremely long, slender legs.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
- dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
- dandie dinmont — a breed of small terrier with a long coat and drooping ears
- daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
- dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
- dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.