14-letter words containing r, e, l, d, s
- child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
- 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.
- chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
- choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
- 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.
- cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
- closed circuit — a circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow.
- closed cornice — a slightly projecting wooden cornice composed of a frieze board and a crown molding without a soffit.
- closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
- closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
- clouded sulfur — a sulfur butterfly, Colias philodice, having yellow wings with black edges and larvae that feed on clover and other legumes.
- cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
- collateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralise.
- 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
- controlledness — The degree to which something is controlled.
- corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
- 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.
- daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- 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.
- deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- 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)
- dematerialised — Simple past tense and past participle of dematerialise.
- dematerializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dematerialize.
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
- dental records — records produced during a dental examination and recording the state of a patient's teeth
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- depersonalised — Simple past tense and past participle of depersonalise.