13-letter words containing a, e, r, o, d
- coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
- coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
- coldheartedly — Alternative spelling of cold-heartedly.
- collared dove — a European dove, Streptopelia decaocto, having a brownish-grey plumage with a black band on the back of the neck
- college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
- command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
- compartmented — Divided into compartments.
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
- concord grape — a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
- confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- confederation — A confederation is an organization or group consisting of smaller groups or states, especially one that exists for business or political purposes.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.