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14-letter words containing a, m, i, d, s

  • cayman islands — three coral islands in the Caribbean Sea northwest of Jamaica: a dependency of Jamaica until 1962, now a UK Overseas Territory. Capital: George Town. Pop: 53 737 (2013 est). Area: about 260 sq km (100 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • chondromatosis — a painful and immobilizing condition that affects the joints, in particular the elbow, hip, and knee joints, and results in the synovial tissue becoming cartilaginous
  • christmas card — Christmas cards are cards with greetings, which people send to their friends and family at Christmas.
  • chromodynamics — a theory that describes how gluons and their forces bind quarks together to form protons, neutrons, etc.
  • cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • commandantship — the office of a commandant
  • commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
  • compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
  • cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
  • decimal system — the number system in general use, having a base of ten, in which numbers are expressed by combinations of the ten digits 0 to 9
  • decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
  • decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
  • decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
  • decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
  • decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
  • decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
  • decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
  • dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
  • demand deposit — a bank deposit from which withdrawals may be made without notice
  • dematerialised — Simple past tense and past participle of dematerialise.
  • dematerializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dematerialize.
  • demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
  • demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
  • demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
  • demonstrations — Plural form of demonstration.
  • demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
  • demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
  • denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
  • dermatologists — Plural form of dermatologist.
  • dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
  • destigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
  • determinations — Plural form of determination.
  • determinatives — Plural form of determinative.
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamond-shaped — rhombic
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
  • 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
  • dimensionality — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • disaccommodate — to inconvenience (a person)
  • disaffirmation — The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
  • disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
  • disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
  • disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
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