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12-letter words containing a, c, n, d

  • carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
  • card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
  • card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
  • cardan joint — type of universal joint
  • cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
  • cardigan bay — an inlet of St George's Channel, on the W coast of Wales
  • cardinal red — a deep, vivid red colour
  • cardinal sin — If you describe an action as a cardinal sin, you are indicating that some people strongly disapprove of it.
  • cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
  • cardinalfish — any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings.
  • cardinalship — The office (or term of office) of a cardinal.
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • casehardened — Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.
  • cash advance — an amount of money borrowed as a short-term loan against a salary, credit card, etc
  • cash in hand — a payment made directly in cash, rather than through a bank
  • cat standard — (in Britain) a standard accepted voluntarily by building societies relating to charges, access, etc, against which Individual Savings Accounts can be judged
  • centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
  • centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
  • cerinic acid — cerotic acid.
  • chafing dish — a vessel with a heating apparatus beneath it, for cooking or keeping food warm at the table
  • chained lady — the constellation Andromeda.
  • chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
  • chandannagar — port in NE India, near Kolkata: formerly a French dependency, it became part of the republic of India in 1950: pop. 120,000
  • chandeliered — having a chandelier
  • chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
  • change hands — to pass from one owner to another
  • change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
  • changearound — the act of changing to a different position
  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • cheerleading — the action or skill of a cheerleader.
  • chicken head — (graphics, abuse)   The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
  • chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
  • childrearing — the raising and parenting of children: Childrearing extends beyond simple guardianship to nurturing and guidance.
  • chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron
  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
  • chip and dip — a bowl or plate for holding potato chips or crackers with a smaller bowl, often placed in the center, for holding dip: usually sold as a set.
  • chip and pin — Chip and PIN is a method of paying for goods you have bought by using both a bank card and a PIN number.
  • chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
  • chondrostian — relating to the class Chondrostei of fish with fin rays
  • chord change — a movement from one chord to another
  • churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
  • cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
  • cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
  • civilianized — Simple past tense and past participle of civilianize.
  • cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
  • cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
  • clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
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