14-letter words containing l, a, d, y
- broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- butyl aldehyde — butyraldehyde
- by the vanload — in very large quantities
- cacodylic acid — a colorless, crystalline, deliquescent, poisonous solid, (CH 3) 2 AsOOH, used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes and as an herbicide.
- cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
- 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)
- cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
- 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)
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- 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.
- chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
- clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
- closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
- coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
- commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
- concentratedly — with intense mental application
- conditionality — imposing, containing, subject to, or depending on a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or allowed on certain terms: conditional acceptance.
- confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
- 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.
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- cytidylic acid — nucleotide that is found in DNA
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- dactylographer — the study of fingerprints for purposes of identification.
- daddy longlegs — A daddy longlegs is a flying insect with very long legs.
- daddy-longlegs — Also called harvestman. any of numerous spiderlike arachnids of the order Opiliones, having a compact rounded body and extremely long, slender legs.
- daffadowndilly — a daffodil
- daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- deadly embrace — deadlock
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- 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
- definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
- delayed action — A delayed action mechanism causes a delay on the device it is fitted to, so that it does not work as soon as you switch it on or operate it.
- delayed speech — a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.
- delayed-action — (of an explosive projectile) exploding some time after hitting the target.
- deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
- deliverability — capable of delivery.
- democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- demoralizingly — in a demoralizing manner
- dental hygiene — the maintenance of the teeth and gums in healthy condition, esp by proper brushing, the removal of plaque, etc
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- denumerability — the quality of being countable