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12-letter words containing c, d, m

  • call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
  • camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • camera ready — (publication)   A final edition of a document or graphic (e.g. a newspaper advertisement or a technical paper for a journal) that is of suitable quality for mass reproduction by making printing plates from the negatives by photoengraving.
  • camera-ready — designating or of copy, artwork, etc. that is ready to be photographed for making into a plate for printing
  • campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
  • campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
  • campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
  • candygrammar — (language)   A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic sugar; a play on "candygram". COBOL, Apple Computer's Hypertalk language, and many 4GLs share this property. The intent is to be as English-like as possible and thus easier for unskilled people to program. However, syntax isn't what makes programming hard; it's the mental effort and organisation required to specify an algorithm precisely. Thus "candygrammar" languages are just as difficult to program in, and far more painful for the experienced hacker.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cathiodermie — a beauty treatment for the skin, which involves using electrotherapy
  • cd-rom drive — A CD-ROM drive is the device that you use with a computer to play CD-ROMs.
  • chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
  • child minder — a person who looks after children, esp those whose parents are working
  • child-minder — a baby-sitter.
  • childminding — Childminding is looking after children when it is done by someone such as a childminder.
  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • chloralamide — (chemistry) A compound of chloral and formic amide, used to induce sleep.
  • chloroformed — Simple past tense and past participle of chloroform.
  • chondriosome — mitochondrion
  • chord symbol — any of a series of letters and numerals, used as a shorthand indication of chords, esp in jazz, folk, or pop music
  • chromic acid — an unstable dibasic oxidizing acid known only in solution and in the form of chromate salts. Formula: H2CrO4
  • chromidrosis — the secretion of pigmented sweat.
  • chrysomelids — Plural form of chrysomelid.
  • ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
  • circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
  • circumradius — the radius of the circle circumscribed around a triangle.
  • circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumvolved — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve.
  • city academy — (in England and Wales) a type of secondary school funded partly by the government and partly by private finance
  • civic-minded — having, showing, or actively carrying out one's concern for the condition and affairs of one's community; public-spirited
  • cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium
  • clam chowder — chowder containing clams
  • clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
  • clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
  • class method — (programming)   1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
  • claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
  • clear as mud — not at all clear
  • clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  • clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
  • closemouthed — not talking much; telling little; taciturn
  • closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
  • code segment — (memory)   (Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the machine code instructions of a program. The code segment of a program may be shared between multiple processes running that code so long as none of them tries to modify it. Initialised data is located in the data segment.
  • codling moth — a tortricid moth, Carpocapsa pomonella, the larvae of which are a pest of apples
  • cold comfort — If you say that a slightly encouraging fact or event is cold comfort to someone, you mean that it gives them little or no comfort because their situation is so difficult or unpleasant.
  • colour model — (graphics)   Any system for representing colours as ordered sets of numbers. The most common colour models are RGB, CMYK, and HSB. There are several others, e.g. CMY, and the "Lab" system(?). See also: Pantone.
  • columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
  • column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
  • columnarized — columnar (def 3).
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