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14-letter words containing ai

  • boatswain bird — tropic bird.
  • bone porcelain — bone china.
  • branched chain — an open chain of atoms with one or more side chains attached to it
  • brewer's grain — an exhausted malt occurring as a by-product of brewing and used as a feedstuff for cattle, pigs, and sheep
  • brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
  • browntail moth — kind of moth
  • caicos islands — a group of islands in the Caribbean: part of the British dependency of the Turks and Caicos Islands
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
  • campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
  • campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
  • captain cooker — a wild pig
  • captain crunch — 1.   (person)   ("Cap'n Crunch") An early 1970s hacker/phreaker/phacker who used a free whistle included with "Cap'n Crunch" breakfast cereal to fake pay phone system tones and make large quantities of free phone calls. Also alludes to "crunch". 2. (After the above) wardialer. 3. Reportedly, a program which crashes a computer by overloading the interrupt stack.
  • captain's mast — a hearing conducted by the captain of a vessel into minor offences of the crew
  • captain's pick — the selection by a team's captain of a player for that team, often a player who has not met criteria for automatic selection
  • captain's walk — widow's walk
  • cardinal trait — a basic and dominant characteristic, as greed or ambition, that, according to a theory developed by psychologist Gordon Allport (1936), controls the behavior of many people.
  • certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
  • chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • chain reaction — A chain reaction is a series of chemical changes, each of which causes the next.
  • charles's wain — Big Dipper
  • chisholm trail — cattle trail from San Antonio, Tex., to Abilene, Kans.: important from 1865 until the 1880s
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • clairsentience — The ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of feeling.
  • claude lorrain — real name Claude Gelée. 1600–82, French painter, esp of idealized landscapes, noted for his subtle depiction of light
  • clive sinclair — (person)   Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who pioneered the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use, 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair Research. Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world), radios and televisions. Perhaps he is most famous (or some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985. He has been a member of MENSA, the high IQ society, since 1962.
  • clock repairer — a person who mends clocks, watches, etc
  • co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
  • cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
  • cocktail glass — a glass for serving cocktails, typically bell-shaped and having a foot and a stem.
  • cocktail onion — a small pickled onion served with drinks
  • cocktail party — A cocktail party is a party, usually held in the early evening, where cocktails or other alcoholic drinks are served. People often dress quite formally for them.
  • cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
  • cocktail stick — a small pointed stick used for holding cherries, olives, etc, in cocktails, and for serving snacks, such as small sausages
  • cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
  • communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
  • compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
  • computer-aided — done or improved by computer
  • concessionaire — A concessionaire is a person or company that has the right to sell a product or to run a business, especially in a building belonging to another business.
  • constraintlisp — (language)   An object-oriented constraint language based on CSP. An extension of Common Lisp and CLOS.
  • container dock — a dock designed for cargo containers
  • container line — a haulier or carrier that uses containers
  • container port — a port that is adapted or built for the use of cargo containers
  • container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
  • containerboard — a form of paperboard, either corrugated or solid, that is used to make containers
  • containerizing — Present participle of containerize.
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