13-letter words containing a, n, d, r, i, c
- 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
- 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.
- cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
- coordinations — the act or state of coordinating or of being coordinated.
- 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.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- 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
- 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.
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- credentialled — having credentials
- credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
- credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
- 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
- crotonic acid — type of colourless acid
- crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
- cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
- cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
- cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- cyanuric acid — a white crystalline powder commonly used to stabilize chlorine in swimming pools. Formula C3H3N3O3
- cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
- cylinder head — the detachable metal casting that fits onto the top of a cylinder block. In an engine it contains part of the combustion chamber and in an overhead-valve four-stroke engine it houses the valves and their operating mechanisms
- cylinder seal — a cylindrical seal of stone, clay, or precious stone decorated with linear designs, found in the Middle East and Balkans: dating from about 6000 bc
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- cylindrically — In the manner of a cylinder.
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
- decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
- decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
- decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
- decentralized — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
- decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
- decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
- decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
- dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
- decortication — the act or process of decorticating.
- decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.