12-letter words containing a, d, o
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- cradleboards — Plural form of cradleboard.
- craniocaudal — (anatomy) From the cranial to the caudal end of a structure.
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- creaturehood — the state of being a creature
- 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.
- crowned head — a monarch
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- crystalloids — Plural form of crystalloid.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- custodialism — of or relating to custody.
- cut-off date — the last date on which it is possible to do something
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- d'anjou pear — Anjou pear
- d'oyly carte — Richard. 1844–1901, British impresario noted for his productions of the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan
- 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
- dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- dactylozooid — (zoology) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora with an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth.
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- 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)
- dalton's law — the principle that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases in a fixed volume is equal to the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- 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.
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- daniel boone — Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.
- daniel jones — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- darning wool — wool used for darning
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- data logging — (data) (data acquisition) Storing a series of measurements over time, usually from a sensor that converts a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, light, resistance, current, power, speed, vibration into a voltage that is then converted by a digital to analog converter (DAC) into a binary number. Data logging hardware may have several DACs for multiple simultaneous measurements. The hardware usually connects to a parallel port, serial port or USB port on a PC.
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- dawn redwood — a deciduous conifer, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, native to China but planted in other regions as an ornamental tree: family Taxodiaceae. Until the 1940s it was known only as a fossil
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- de dolo malo — with evil intention; with intent to defraud.