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14-letter words containing s, d, e, a, t

  • at loggerheads — If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other.
  • at second hand — If you experience something at second hand, you are told about it by other people rather than experiencing it yourself.
  • at the outside — You use at the outside to say that you think that a particular amount is the largest possible in a particular situation, or that a particular time is the latest possible time for something to happen.
  • atacama desert — a desert region along the W coast of South America, mainly in N Chile: a major source of nitrates. Area: about 80 000 sq km (31 000 sq miles)
  • atlas autocode — (language)   The Autocode for the Ferranti Atlas, which may have been the first commercial computer with hardware-paged virtual memory. Whereas other autocodes were basically assembly languages, Atlas Autocode was high-level and block-structured, resembling a cross between Fortran and ALGOL 60. It had call-by value, loops, declarations, complex numbers, pointers, heap and stack storage generators, dynamic arrays, and extensible syntax.
  • audio-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
  • audiocassettes — Plural form of audiocassette.
  • austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
  • autoantibodies — Plural form of autoantibody.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • autodestructed — Simple past tense and past participle of autodestruct.
  • autoresponders — Plural form of autoresponder.
  • axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • banker's draft — A banker's draft is the same as a bank draft.
  • barbados earth — a diatomaceous marl found in Barbados
  • barrel-chested — A barrel-chested man has a large, rounded chest.
  • basidiomycetes — Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs.
  • basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
  • bastard ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • batten disease — a rare hereditary disease in which lipids accumulate in the nervous system, leading to mental deterioration, loss of mobility, and blindness that start in early childhood
  • battle-scarred — adversely affected from the experience of battle, or some other traumatic experience
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
  • bidialectalism — the state of being bidialectal
  • binding strake — a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.
  • black redstart — a small, Passerine bird, Phoenicurus ochruros, found in Central and S Europe
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • born yesterday — brought forth by birth.
  • boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism.
  • calculatedness — the state of being calculated
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • cardiac arrest — A cardiac arrest is a heart attack.
  • cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
  • cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
  • case and paste — (programming)   (From "cut and paste") The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes. This usually results in gross violation of the fundamental programming tenet, Don't Repeat Yourself. Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using "case" statements. Leads to software bloat. In some circles of Emacs users this is called "programming by Meta-W", because Meta-W is the Emacs command for copying a block of text to a kill buffer in preparation to pasting it in elsewhere. The term is condescending, implying that the programmer is acting mindlessly rather than thinking carefully about what is required to integrate the code for two similar cases. At DEC, this is sometimes called "clone-and-hack" coding.
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
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