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

  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
  • christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
  • cinco de mayo — May 5, anniversary of the victory of Mexico over French forces at Puebla in 1862: observed by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • ciudad madero — city in Tamaulipas state, EC Mexico: suburb of Tampico: pop. 160,000
  • clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
  • cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  • coalesced sum — (theory)   (Or "smash sum") In domain theory, the coalesced sum of domains A and B, A (+) B, contains all the non-bottom elements of both domains, tagged to show which part of the sum they come from, and a new bottom element. D (+) E = { bottom(D(+)E) } U { (0,d) | d in D, d /= bottom(D) } U { (1,e) | e in E, e /= bottom(E) } The bottoms of the constituent domains are coalesced into a single bottom in the sum. This may be generalised to any number of domains. The ordering is bottom(D(+)E) <= v For all v in D(+)E (i,v1) <= (j,v2) iff i = j & v1 <= v2 "<=" is usually written as LaTeX \sqsubseteq and "(+)" as LaTeX \oplus - a "+" in a circle.
  • come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
  • 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.
  • commaundement — Obsolete spelling of commandment.
  • commendations — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
  • compactedness — the state of being compacted
  • company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
  • compartmented — Divided into compartments.
  • complicatedly — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
  • compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
  • comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
  • condemnations — Plural form of condemnation.
  • conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cream-colored — yellowish-white
  • credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
  • criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
  • 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.
  • dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
  • dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
  • damson cheese — thick damson jam
  • dance company — a group of dancers, usually including business and technical personnel
  • danse macabre — dance of death
  • death chamber — a room in which someone has died
  • decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
  • decimal place — the position of a digit after the decimal point, each successive position to the right having a denominator of an increased power of ten
  • decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
  • decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
  • decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
  • decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
  • decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
  • decontaminate — To decontaminate something means to remove all germs or dangerous substances from it.
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