14-letter words containing t, i, d, e
- anti-apartheid — opposed to apartheid
- anti-desiccant — a substance or material applied to a plant, as by spraying, to inhibit moisture loss during transplanting.
- anti-diarrheal — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- anti-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- antiadrenergic — Preventing or counteracting the effects of adrenaline.
- antidefamation — (of a group or organization) against defamation
- antidemocratic — opposed to the principles or practice of democracy
- antidepressant — An antidepressant is a drug which is used to treat people who are suffering from depression.
- antidepression — alleviating or preventing depression
- antiderivative — an indefinite integral
- antidiarrhoeal — a drug used to prevent or treat diarrhoea
- antifederalism — Alternative form of anti-federalism.
- antifederalist — a person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 and thereafter allied with Thomas Jefferson's Antifederal Party, which opposed extension of the powers of the federal Government
- antiquatedness — The state or quality of being antiquated.
- antoine domino — Antoine ("Fats") born 1928, U.S. rhythm-and-blues pianist, singer, and composer.
- appendectomies — Plural form of appendectomy.
- appendicectomy — surgical removal of any appendage, esp the vermiform appendix
- arabia deserta — an ancient division of Arabia, in the N part between Syria and Mesopotamia.
- arabian desert — a desert in E Egypt, between the Nile, the Gulf of Suez, and the Red Sea: mountainous parts rise over 1800 m (6000 ft). Area: about 220 000 sq km (85 000 sq miles)
- archaeocyathid — one of the marine invertebrates of the extinct phylum Archaeocyatha, widely distributed during the Cambrian Period, having a limy, typically conical or cylindrical skeleton composed of sievelike inner and outer walls.
- archidiaconate — the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon
- archimandrites — Plural form of archimandrite.
- arctic redpoll — a finch, Carduelis hornemanni, of the family Fringillidae, which breeds in tundra birch forest
- ardent spirits — spirits, such as rum, whisky, etc
- arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
- articled clerk — a trainee solicitor bound by a written contract
- artificialized — Simple past tense and past participle of artificialize.
- assistance dog — a dog that has been specially trained to live with and accompany a disabled person, carrying out such tasks as prompting them to take medication or assisting them to cross a road
- assisted dying — the suicide of a person afflicted by an incurable disease, using a lethal dose of drugs provided by a physician for this purpose
- assisted place — a place at a private school reserved for a pupil from a family with a low income, with the fees paid by the government
- associated gas — Associated gas is raw natural gas that comes through crude oil wells.
- 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.
- atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
- auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
- audio-cassette — a cassette of tape on which sound only is recorded
- audiocassettes — Plural form of audiocassette.
- auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
- 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.
- autopilot code — (jargon, humour) Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
- autotetraploid — an individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of four copies of a single genome due to doubling of an ancestral chromosome complement
- aviation badge — wings.
- aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
- aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
- axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
- azidothymidine — an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
- backside-front — backend-to.
- badger baiting — an illegal sport in which dogs are encouraged to draw a badger out of its burrow and attack it
- ball cartridge — a cartridge containing a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder