13-letter words containing a, c, r, d
- confederative — of confederates or a confederation
- conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
- congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- conquistadors — Plural form of conquistador.
- conservatized — Simple past tense and past participle of conservatize.
- considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideration — Consideration is careful thought about something.
- considerative — considerate
- consolidators — Plural form of consolidator.
- constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- containerised — Simple past tense and past participle of containerise.
- containerized — Simple past tense and past participle of containerize.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- contract bond — an indemnity agreement to protect against loss due to breach of contract.
- contradicting — Present participle of contradict.
- contradiction — If you describe an aspect of a situation as a contradiction, you mean that it is completely different from other aspects, and so makes the situation confused or difficult to understand.
- contradictive — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contradictory — If two or more facts, ideas, or statements are contradictory, they state or imply that opposite things are true.
- control board — a panel containing switches, dials, and other equipment for regulating electrical devices, lights, etc.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- coordinations — the act or state of coordinating or of being coordinated.
- 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.
- corduroy road — a road across swampy ground, made of logs laid transversely
- 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
- corn marigold — an annual plant, Chrysanthemum segetum, with yellow daisy-like flower heads: a common weed of cultivated land: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- costochondral — (anatomy) Relating to ribs and cartilage.
- 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)
- count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
- 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.
- crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
- crack of doom — doomsday; the end of the world; the Day of Judgment
- cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
- cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
- cranial index — the ratio of the greatest length to the greatest width of the cranium, multiplied by 100: used in comparative anthropology
- crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- cream-colored — yellowish-white
- credentialing — 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.