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

  • brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism.
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • budget surplus — the amount by which government income from taxation, customs duties, etc, exceeds expenditure in any one fiscal year
  • builder's knot — clove hitch
  • 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
  • cheese product — a processed cheese consisting in the U.S. of at least 50 percent cheese to which cheese whey or whey albumin may be added.
  • chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
  • child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
  • 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.
  • closed circuit — a circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow.
  • closed couplet — a couplet that concludes with an end-stopped line.
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • closed-circuit — A closed-circuit television or video system is one that operates within a limited area such as a building.
  • co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
  • 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.
  • code of ethics — an agreement on ethical standards for a profession or business
  • code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
  • collateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralise.
  • colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • condensational — Of or pertaining to condensation.
  • condensed type — a typeface narrower than the standard type for the series
  • conductivities — Plural form of conductivity.
  • confederations — Plural form of confederation.
  • conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  • consent decree — a negotiated agreement of the parties to a lawsuit which resolves the disputed issues and is sanctioned by the court; often, specif., such an agreement by which the defendant agrees to cease an activity or practice asserted by the government to be illegal
  • considerations — Plural form of consideration.
  • 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.
  • contractedness — the state of being shortened
  • controlledness — The degree to which something is controlled.
  • convolutedness — twisted; coiled.
  • 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
  • corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
  • correspondents — Plural form of correspondent.
  • corticosteroid — any steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex that affects carbohydrate, protein, and electrolyte metabolism, gonad function, and immune response
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