14-letter words containing i, n, c, e, s, d
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- considerations — Plural form of consideration.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- coordinateness — The state, quality or condition of being coordinate.
- 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
- 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.
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- cross-dressing — the wearing of clothes normally associated with the opposite sex
- cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
- cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
- cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- cylinder press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- death instinct — the destructive or aggressive instinct, based on a compulsion to return to an earlier harmonious state and, ultimately, to nonexistence
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
- decommissioned — to remove or retire (a ship, airplane, etc.) from active service.
- decommissioner — a person who decommissions a ship, nuclear reactor, etc
- 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
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
- defect density — (programming) The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- dennis ritchie — (person) Dennis M. Ritchie, co-author of the Unix operating system, inventor of the C programming language and demigod. See also K&R, Core War, If you want X, you know where to find it.
- depoliticising — Present participle of depoliticise.
- despicableness — The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
- despoticalness — the quality of being despotic
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
- desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.