14-letter words containing l, e, d, s
- colorblindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
- colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
- commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- condensational — Of or pertaining to condensation.
- condensed milk — Condensed milk is very thick sweetened milk that is sold in cans.
- contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- controlledness — The degree to which something is controlled.
- convolutedness — twisted; coiled.
- coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
- corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
- 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
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- 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.
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- 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.
- critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- 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.
- 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.
- daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
- damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
- daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- de los angeles — Victoria (bikˈtorja). 1923–2005, Spanish soprano
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- decimal system — the number system in general use, having a base of ten, in which numbers are expressed by combinations of the ten digits 0 to 9
- 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
- declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
- decolonisation — Alternative spelling of decolonization.
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- deinstallation — The process of deinstalling.
- delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
- delayed speech — a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.
- delectableness — The state or quality of being delectable.
- deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
- delta aquarids — either of two collections of meteors comprising meteor showers having their apparent origin in the constellation Aquarius and visible either in early May (Eta Aquarids) or late July (Delta Aquarids)