12-letter words containing c, a, o, d
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- epicycloidal — Of or pertaining to an epicycloid.
- epidiascopes — Plural form of epidiascope.
- episodically — In an episodic manner; in episodes.
- eradications — Plural form of eradication.
- ethical code — an ethical code is a set of moral principles used to govern the conduct of a profession
- expectorated — Simple past tense and past participle of expectorate.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- folinic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 20 H 23 N 7 O 7 , produced by fermentation or derived from folic acid, used in medicine in the treatment of certain anemias.
- food fascist — a person who shows extreme, intolerant views in relation to food
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- forced-draft — using a flow of air or air forced through a pipe or system of pipes by fans or blowers: a forced-draft central heating system.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- four old cat — three old cat played with four batters.
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
- geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
- glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
- gonadotropic — pertaining to substances formed in the anterior pituitary gland that affect the activity of the ovary or testis.
- gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
- grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- grand canyon — a gorge of the Colorado River in N Arizona. over 200 miles (320 km) long; 1 mile (1.6 km) deep.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- halcyon days — period regarded with nostalgia
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- harmonichord — a musical instrument resembling an upright piano intended to fuse the sound of a violin with the functionality of a piano, the tone therefore produced using friction rather than through striking
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.