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14-letter words containing i, n, r, e, s, d

  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • builder's knot — clove hitch
  • cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
  • cash dispenser — A cash dispenser is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account using a special card.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • 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.
  • chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
  • circumbendibus — a circumlocution
  • closed cornice — a slightly projecting wooden cornice composed of a frieze board and a crown molding without a soffit.
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • colorblindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
  • 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.
  • coordinateness — The state, quality or condition of being coordinate.
  • 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.
  • daniel websterDaniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • david d'angers — (born Pierre Jean David) 1788?-1856; Fr. sculptor
  • dead president — a banknote
  • decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
  • dechristianize — to make non-Christian
  • decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
  • decommissioner — a person who decommissions a ship, nuclear reactor, etc
  • 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
  • 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.
  • defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
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