14-letter words containing l, d, r, i
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- 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 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.
- crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
- 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
- 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.
- cylinder liner — A cylinder liner is a thin-walled hard metal cylinder inserted into a cylinder block of an engine and in which the piston runs.
- cylinder press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- dactyliography — the art of engraving or writing on gems
- daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
- darning needle — a long needle with a large eye used for darning
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
- decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
- decentralizing — Present participle of decentralize.
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
- decolorization — decolor.
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- decriminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decriminalize.
- decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- dehydroretinol — (organic compound) A derivative of retinol having an extra double bond; vitamin A2.
- delaine merino — one of an American strain of Merino sheep.
- deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
- deliverability — capable of delivery.
- delivery order — a document that records an order for delivery of goods
- delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
- delphic oracle — the oracle of Apollo at Delphi that gave answers held by the ancient Greeks to be of great authority but also noted for their ambiguity
- delta aquarids — either of two collections of meteors comprising meteor showers having their apparent origin in the constellation Aquarius and visible either in early May (Eta Aquarids) or late July (Delta Aquarids)
- delta particle — a very short-lived hyperon
- dematerialised — Simple past tense and past participle of dematerialise.
- dematerialized — Simple past tense and past participle of dematerialize.
- dematerializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dematerialize.
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.