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13-letter words containing a, c, o, r, d, e

  • contradictive — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
  • core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
  • coresidential — relating to joint residency
  • cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
  • costardmonger — a costermonger
  • costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
  • côtes-d'armor — a department of W France, on the N coast of Brittany. Capital: St Brieuc. Pop: 553 969 (2003 est). Area: 6878 sq km (2656 sq miles)
  • counterdemand — a demand made in response to another demand
  • countermanded — Simple past tense and past participle of countermand.
  • countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
  • country dance — a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line
  • country-dance — a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.
  • coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
  • courtesy card — a privilege card
  • covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
  • covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
  • cream-colored — yellowish-white
  • criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
  • cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
  • crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
  • crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
  • cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
  • cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
  • customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
  • cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
  • cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
  • dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
  • decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
  • decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
  • decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
  • decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
  • decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
  • dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
  • decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
  • deconcentrate — to make or become less concentrated
  • deconsecrated — (of a church) having been transferred to secular use
  • deconsecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconsecrate.
  • decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
  • decortication — the act or process of decorticating.
  • decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
  • deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
  • deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
  • demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
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