14-letter words containing m, d, l
- camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
- camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
- campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
- canada hemlock — a hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, of eastern North America, having horizontal branches that often droop to the ground: the state tree of Pennsylvania.
- cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
- cayman islands — three coral islands in the Caribbean Sea northwest of Jamaica: a dependency of Jamaica until 1962, now a UK Overseas Territory. Capital: George Town. Pop: 53 737 (2013 est). Area: about 260 sq km (100 sq miles)
- certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
- certified milk — milk that is processed according to the sanitation standards in the area in which it is sold
- charmed circle — If you refer to a group of people as a charmed circle, you mean that they seem to have special power or influence, and do not allow anyone else to join their group.
- child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
- chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
- chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
- choledochotomy — incision of the common bile duct.
- 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.
- 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.
- clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
- clitoridectomy — the surgical removal of the clitoris: a form of female circumcision, esp practised as a religious or ethnic rite
- 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
- colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
- colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
- 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
- common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
- compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- compusult ltd. — A computer consulting firm (in Newfoundland, Canada?) that provides a public access Unix.
- computer model — a model of a process or object created on a computer
- condemned cell — A condemned cell is a prison cell for someone who is going to be executed.
- condensed milk — Condensed milk is very thick sweetened milk that is sold in cans.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- cream-coloured — cream in colour
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- 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
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- 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
- data modelling — data model
- deadly embrace — deadlock
- decamillennial — Occurring every ten thousand years.
- 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.
- decimalization — Alternative spelling of decimalisation.
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- decriminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decriminalize.