12-letter words containing a, c, d, i
- counter-raid — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- coup d'essai — a first attempt.
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- crane driver — a person who drives a crane
- craniocaudal — (anatomy) From the cranial to the caudal end of a structure.
- credentialed — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- credit sales — sales for which the customer does not need to pay immediately
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- crystalloids — Plural form of crystalloid.
- culturalized — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- culvertailed — dove-tailed
- cupid's dart — blue succory.
- cupid's-dart — blue succory.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- curvicaudate — having a curved tail
- custodialism — of or relating to custody.
- cut and fill — a process of localized gradation whereby material eroded from one place is deposited a short distance away.
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- dactinomycin — a cytotoxic polypeptide, C 62 H 86 N 12 O 16 , isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces parvullus, used in the treatment of certain cancers.
- dactyliology — the study of finger-rings
- dactylozooid — (zoology) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora with an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth.
- dairy cattle — cows raised mainly for their milk
- daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
- daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
- dallapiccola — Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1904–75, Italian composer of twelve-tone music. His works include the opera Il Prigioniero (1944–48) and the ballet Marsia (1948)
- dance on air — to move one's feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, especially to the accompaniment of music.
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- dancing girl — a professional female dancer who dances to entertain customers at a club, theatre, etc
- dancing step — balanced step.
- daniell cell — a type of cell having a zinc anode in dilute sulphuric acid separated by a porous barrier from a copper cathode in copper sulphate solution. It has an emf of 1.1 volts
- data carrier — any medium, such as magnetic tape, on which data can be recorded
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- de-accession — to remove (an item) from a museum or library collection preparatory to selling it
- deactivating — Present participle of deactivate.
- deactivation — The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb.
- dealcoholize — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
- deallocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.