14-letter words containing s, u, n, d
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
- commodiousness — The state or quality of being commodious.
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- conceptualised — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conductivities — Plural form of conductivity.
- conductor loss — Conductor loss is loss occurring in a conductor due to the flow of current.
- conquistadores — one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
- contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
- contradictious — inclined to contradict; contentious
- convolutedness — twisted; coiled.
- 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.
- crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
- cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
- crossing guard — school (crossing) guard
- cruising speed — the speed at which a ship, car, or aircraft travels most efficiently
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- cuckold's knot — a hitch, as for holding a spar, consisting of a single loop with the overlapping parts of the rope seized together.
- cuisenaire rod — one of a set of rods of various colours and lengths representing different numbers, used to teach arithmetic to young children
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- 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
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- deoxyguanosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to guanosine.
- depressurizing — Present participle of depressurize.
- despitefulness — The state or quality of being despiteful.
- destructionist — a person who believes in destruction, esp of social institutions
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- deuteragonists — Plural form of deuteragonist.
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
- diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
- dicotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).