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14-letter words containing l, d, c

  • condemned cell — A condemned cell is a prison cell for someone who is going to be executed.
  • condensational — Of or pertaining to condensation.
  • condensed milk — Condensed milk is very thick sweetened milk that is sold in cans.
  • conditionality — imposing, containing, subject to, or depending on a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or allowed on certain terms: conditional acceptance.
  • conductibility — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
  • conductor loss — Conductor loss is loss occurring in a conductor due to the flow of current.
  • conduplication — (of a leaf in the bud) folded lengthwise with the upper face of the blade within.
  • confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
  • consolidations — Plural form of consolidation.
  • contextualised — to put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) in a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • contextualized — Simple past tense and past participle of contextualize.
  • contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
  • controlledness — The degree to which something is controlled.
  • convolutedness — twisted; coiled.
  • coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
  • corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
  • cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
  • cottonseed oil — a yellowish or dark red oil with a nutlike smell, extracted or expelled from cottonseed, used in cooking and in the manufacture of paints, soaps, etc
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • counterplotted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterplot.
  • cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • cream-coloured — cream in colour
  • credence table — a small sideboard, originally one at which food was tasted for poison before serving
  • credentialling — the practice of analysing the credentials of an individual or organization
  • credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
  • credit control — (in a business) the practice of maximizing revenue by making sure that customers are a good credit risk
  • creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
  • crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
  • crested lizard — a long-tailed iguanid lizard, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, of arid areas in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, having a row of enlarged scales down the back.
  • critical speed — Critical speed is the speed at which unwanted vibration happens when a vessel is rotating.
  • crocodile bird — an African courser, Pluvianus aegyptius, that lives close to rivers and is thought to feed on insects parasitic on crocodiles
  • crocodile clip — a clasp with serrated interlocking edges used for making electrical connections
  • cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
  • cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
  • 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.
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • cuckold's knot — a hitch, as for holding a spar, consisting of a single loop with the overlapping parts of the rope seized together.
  • culture medium — a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown
  • cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • cylinder block — the metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling channels or fins of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
  • cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
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