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14-letter words containing y, a, r, d

  • brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
  • bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • budgetary year — the financial year a budget is drawn up for
  • cagayan de oro — city in E Mindanao, in the Philippines; pop. 340,000
  • calgary redeye — a drink consisting of a mixture of beer and tomato juice.
  • caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
  • canary islands — a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the NW coast of Africa, forming an Autonomous Community of Spain. Capital: Las Palmas. Pop: 1 944 700 (2003 est)
  • capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
  • cardboard city — an area of a city in which homeless people sleep rough, often in cardboard boxes
  • cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
  • cardiotoxicity — The state or condition of being cardiotoxic.
  • carotid artery — A carotid artery is one of the two arteries in the neck that supply the head with blood.
  • cash-and-carry — A cash-and-carry is a large shop where you can buy goods in larger quantities and at lower prices than in ordinary shops. Cash-and-carries are mainly used by people in business to buy goods for their shops or companies.
  • cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
  • catty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • cherry orchard — an orchard planted in cherry trees
  • children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
  • china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
  • chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
  • chromodynamics — a theory that describes how gluons and their forces bind quarks together to form protons, neutrons, etc.
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
  • company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
  • compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
  • concentratedly — with intense mental application
  • consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
  • copper cyanide — a creamy-white, highly poisonous, water-insoluble powder, CuCN, used chiefly in electroplating and in organic synthesis.
  • cricoarytenoid — A muscle connecting the cricoid cartilage and arytenoid cartilage.
  • cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
  • crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
  • cryptosporidia — Plural form of cryptosporidium.
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
  • cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
  • cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
  • cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
  • dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
  • dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
  • dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
  • daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
  • dairy products — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • darby and joan — an ideal elderly married couple living in domestic harmony
  • data hierarchy — The system of data objects which provide the methods for information storage and retrieval. Broadly, a data hierarchy may be considered to be either natural, which arises from the alphabet or syntax of the language in which the information is expressed, or machine, which reflects the facilities of the computer, both hardware and software. A natural data hierarchy might consist of bits, characters, words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. One might use components bound to an application, such as field, record, and file, and these would ordinarily be further specified by having data descriptors such as name field, address field, etc. On the other hand, a machine or software system might use bit, byte, word, block, partition, channel, and port. Programming languages often provide types or objects which can create data hierarchies of arbitrary complexity, thus allowing software system designers to model language structures described by the linguist to greater or lesser degree. The distinction between the natural form of data and the facilities provided by the machine may be obscure, because users force their needs into the molds provided, and programmers change machine designs. As an example, the natural data type "character" and the machine type "byte" are often used interchangeably, because the latter has evolved to meet the need of representing the former.
  • data integrity — (data)   The absence of unintended changes or errors in some data. Integrity implies that the data is an exact copy of some original version, e.g. that it has not been corrupted in the process of being written to, and read back from, a hard disk or during transmission via some communications channel. Integrity may further imply that the information represented by the data has been validated, i.e. verified to conform to certain constraints, e.g. a date's year, month and day parts are within the appropriate ranges and the date actually exists.
  • daycare centre — an establishment offering daycare to preschool children, enabling their parents to work full time or have extended relief if child care is a problem
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