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14-letter words containing s, d, a

  • citizens' band — Citizens' Band is a range of radio frequencies which the general public is allowed to use to send messages to each other and is used especially by truck drivers in their vehicles. The abbreviation CB is often used.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • 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.
  • collateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralise.
  • commandantship — the office of a commandant
  • commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
  • compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
  • compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
  • conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • condensational — Of or pertaining to condensation.
  • confederations — Plural form of confederation.
  • conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  • considerations — Plural form of consideration.
  • consolidations — Plural form of consolidation.
  • consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
  • contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
  • contractedness — the state of being shortened
  • contradictions — the act of contradicting; gainsaying or opposition.
  • contradictious — inclined to contradict; contentious
  • contradistinct — Distinguished by opposite qualities.
  • coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
  • coordinateness — The state, quality or condition of being coordinate.
  • copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
  • copy and paste — to copy (information in a computer document) and put it somewhere else in the document
  • cotransduction — the simultaneous transfer of multiple genes from one bacterium to another by a single bacteriophage
  • 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.
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
  • creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
  • creme d'ananas — a liqueur flavored with pineapple.
  • 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-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
  • cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
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