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

  • contradictory — If two or more facts, ideas, or statements are contradictory, they state or imply that opposite things are true.
  • control board — a panel containing switches, dials, and other equipment for regulating electrical devices, lights, etc.
  • 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.
  • costardmonger — a costermonger
  • costochondral — (anatomy) Relating to ribs and cartilage.
  • count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
  • counterdemand — a demand made in response to another demand
  • countermanded — Simple past tense and past participle of countermand.
  • countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
  • 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.
  • 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
  • crotonic acid — type of colourless acid
  • crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
  • cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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).
  • decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
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