14-letter words containing s, o, r, d
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- cross bridging — bridging composed of crisscross pieces of wood.
- cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
- cross-addicted — addicted to two or more substances simultaneously.
- cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
- cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- cross-dressing — the wearing of clothes normally associated with the opposite sex
- cross-gartered — (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.
- cross-indexing — to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum
- cryptosporidia — Plural form of cryptosporidium.
- cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
- custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- data processor — a computer that is capable of performing operations on data in order to extract information, reorder files, etc
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- dead to rights — in an undeniably incriminating situation; red-handed
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decommissioner — a person who decommissions a ship, nuclear reactor, etc
- deconsecrating — Present participle of deconsecrate.
- deconsecration — The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement.
- deconstructing — Present participle of deconstruct.
- deconstruction — a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- decorated shed — a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- defence forces — the armed services of a country
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- demonstrations — Plural form of demonstration.
- demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
- 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
- depersonalised — Simple past tense and past participle of depersonalise.
- depersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of depersonalize.
- depersonalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depersonalize.
- deplorableness — The state or quality of being deplorable.