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14-letter words containing t, e, a, c, d, y

  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endodontically — according to the practice of endodontics
  • faraday effect — the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • hydroextractor — a device that dries things by means of the material to be dried being spun around the device's central axis
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • idealistically — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
  • immethodically — Unmethodically.
  • incandescently — (of light) produced by incandescence.
  • induction year — the first year of a newly qualified teacher's career, in which he or she has a lighter workload and follows a programme of professional development and support provided by an experienced mentor; at the end of this year, the teacher is formally assessed against the core professional standards
  • innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
  • insecticidally — in an insecticidal manner
  • latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
  • leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • malcontentedly — in a discontented manner
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • medicamentally — in a manner that relates to medicaments
  • nondocumentary — a film or television programme not reflecting real life
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • richard tawneyRichard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • stanley dancerStanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
  • strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
  • tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • tyndall effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
  • tyndall-effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
  • unaccidentally — happening by chance or accident; not planned; unexpected: an accidental meeting.
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