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14-letter words containing l, a, d

  • chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
  • checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
  • chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
  • chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
  • child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
  • 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 wood oil — tung oil
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
  • chloride paper — a relatively slow printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride: used mostly for contact prints.
  • chlorothiazide — a diuretic drug administered orally in the treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease and hypertension. Formula: C7H6ClN3O4S2
  • chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
  • chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
  • chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
  • chondromalacia — degeneration of cartilage in the knee, usually caused by excessive wear between the patella and lower end of the femur.
  • circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
  • ciudad bolivar — a port in E Venezuela, on the Orinoco River: accessible to ocean-going vessels. Pop: 344 000 (2005 est)
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • clamshell door — Often, clamshell doors. a door consisting of two panels that spread open vertically, as those located on the underside of some cargo planes.
  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
  • clarendon code — four acts passed by the Cavalier Parliament between 1661 and 1665 to deal with the religious problems of the Restoration
  • class schedule — In a school or college, a class schedule is a list that shows the times in the week at which particular subjects are taught. You can also refer to the range of subjects that a student learns or the classes that a teacher teaches as their class schedule.
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • clean and jerk — a lift in which a barbell is raised from the floor to shoulder height where it is brought to rest and then, with a lunging movement by the lifter, is thrust overhead so the arms extend straight in the air, being held in this position for a short, specified length of time.
  • clean-and-jerk — a lift in weightlifting in which the weight is held momentarily at shoulder height before being thrust overhead
  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
  • cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coated vesicle — a clathrin-covered vesicle that forms from the closure of a coated pit, engulfing the ligand-receptor complex in endocytosis.
  • cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
  • coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
  • collateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralise.
  • collateralized — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralize.
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • colorado river — a state in the W United States. 104,247 sq. mi. (270,000 sq. km). Capital: Denver. Abbreviation: CO (for use with zip code), Col., Colo.
  • colorado topaz — a tawny-coloured form of topaz found in Colorado
  • command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
  • commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
  • commercialized — spoiled by commercial exploitation; degraded
  • commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
  • compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
  • comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
  • concentratedly — with intense mental application
  • conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • conceptualized — Simple past tense and past participle of conceptualize.
  • condensational — Of or pertaining to condensation.
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