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13-letter words containing a, r, c, e, d

  • 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.
  • cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
  • cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
  • cranial index — the ratio of the greatest length to the greatest width of the cranium, multiplied by 100: used in comparative anthropology
  • cream-colored — yellowish-white
  • 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 bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
  • 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.
  • creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
  • crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
  • 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.
  • cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
  • cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
  • cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
  • custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
  • custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
  • customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
  • 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-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
  • cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • 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
  • dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
  • dance therapy — the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.
  • danse macabre — dance of death
  • 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
  • data security — the protection of data stored on computers
  • daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • death chamber — a room in which someone has died
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
  • decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
  • decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
  • decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
  • decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
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