11-letter words containing a, n, d, e, r
- constrained — embarrassed, unnatural, or forced
- contradance — contredanse
- contravened — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- contredanse — a courtly Continental version of the English country dance, similar to the quadrille
- conversated — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- coordinance — a joint ordinance
- coordinated — well organized
- coordinates — clothes of matching or harmonious colours and design, suitable for wearing together
- cordialness — The state or quality of being cordial.
- cordilleran — a mountain system in W South America: the Andes and its component ranges.
- cordwainery — Shoemaking.
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
- countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
- counterraid — a retaliatory raid on an enemy
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- crabbedness — The state or quality of being crabbed.
- craggedness — the quality of being cragged
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
- crankhandle — a handle for starting a motor
- credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
- crenellated — In a castle, a crenellated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
- crescentade — a religious crusade or war fought under the flag of Turkey
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- dacarbazine — a toxic, light-sensitive powder, C 6 H 10 N 6 O, used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and metastatic malignant melanoma.
- dance drama — drama performed through dance movements, frequently with dialogue.
- dance floor — In a restaurant or night club, the dance floor is the area where people can dance.
- dandy fever — (in the West Indies) dengue.
- danger cave — a deep, stratified site in the eastern Great Basin, in Utah, occupied by Amerindian cultures from at least 7000 b.c. to historic times.
- danger list — on
- danger zone — a dangerous area
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- dangleberry — a blue huckleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa), native to E North America
- dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
- dardanelles — the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara, separating European from Asian Turkey
- dark energy — unobserved energy whose existence is proposed to account for the observed acceleration in the expansion of the universe
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- darlingness — the quality or characteristic of being darling, sweet, or charming
- darning egg — a rounded piece of wood or plastic used in darning to support the fabric around the hole
- dastardness — the sate or quality of being a dastard
- data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
- dawn raider — a person or company that mounts a dawn raid
- day nursery — A day nursery is a place where children who are too young to go to school can be left all day while their parents are at work.
- day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
- daydreaming — indulgence in daydreams
- dde manager — An Oracle product that lets Microsoft Windows applications that support the Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) protocol act as front end tools for Oracle. It allows applications like Excel, Word, Ami Professional, WingZ and ToolBook to query, update, graph and report information stored in Oracle.
- de la renta — Oscar, 1932–2014, U.S. fashion designer, born in the Dominican Republic.