12-letter words containing a, d, s, t
- codefendants — Plural form of codefendant.
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- command post — A command post is a place from which a commander in the army controls and organizes his forces.
- commandments — a command or mandate.
- commiserated — Simple past tense and past participle of commiserate.
- compact disc — Compact discs are small shiny discs that contain music or computer information. The abbreviation CD is also used.
- compact disk — an optical disk approximately 4.75 inches (12 cm) in diameter, on which a program, data, music, etc., is digitally encoded for a laser beam to scan, decode, and transmit to a playback system, computer monitor, or television set. Abbreviation: CD.
- condensation — Condensation consists of small drops of water which form when warm water vapour or steam touches a cold surface such as a window.
- conditionals — Plural form of conditional.
- conductances — Plural form of conductance.
- confederates — Plural form of confederate.
- conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
- considerated — Simple past tense and past participle of considerate.
- consolidated — consolidated (def 2).
- consolidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of consolidate.
- consolidator — a person or thing that consolidates
- constellated — Simple past tense and past participle of constellate.
- consternated — to dismay, confuse, or terrify.
- contradances — Plural form of contradance.
- coordinators — Plural form of coordinator.
- cordialities — cordial quality or feeling.
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- credit sales — sales for which the customer does not need to pay immediately
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- 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.
- cupid's dart — blue succory.
- cupid's-dart — blue succory.
- custard tart — a small pastry case filled with egg custard
- custodialism — of or relating to custody.
- 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.
- dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- 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.
- 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
- damask steel — Damascus steel
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- dancing step — balanced step.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- darmstadtium — a synthetic radioactive element produced in small quantities by cold fusion in a linear accelerator. Symbol: Ds; atomic no: 110
- dastardizing — Present participle of dastardize.
- data exhaust — unstructured information or data that is a by-product of the online activities of Internet users: Collecting and analyzing data exhaust can provide valuable insight into the purchasing habits of consumers.
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.
- date squares — a sweet made of a date filling on an oatmeal base with a crumble topping, cut into squares
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- davis strait — a strait between Baffin Island, in Canada, and Greenland