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11-letter words containing c, d

  • bubble card — blister pack.
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • buckskinned — made of buckskin
  • bull-necked — having a short thick neck
  • bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
  • butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
  • butenedioic — designating a type of acid
  • c-odescript — (language)   A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
  • cabbagehead — cabbage1 (def 2).
  • cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
  • cable modem — (communications, hardware)   A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.
  • cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
  • cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
  • cacodemonic — relating to cacodemons
  • cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view
  • caddie cart — a small two-wheeled cart used by golfers to carry their clubs.
  • caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
  • caddishness — the state of being caddish
  • caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
  • cadet cloth — a heavy woolen cloth of double-cloth construction and bluish-gray color, used especially for uniforms at military schools.
  • cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
  • cadmium red — a pigment used in painting, consisting of the sulfide and the selinide of cadmium, characterized by its strong red or reddish color, excellent film-forming properties, and slow drying rate.
  • cadwallader — a male given name.
  • caffeinated — with no natural caffeine removed
  • caird coast — a region of Antarctica: a part of Coats Land on the SE coast of the Weddell Sea; now included in the British Antarctic Territory (claim suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959)
  • calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
  • calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendarist — a person who calendarizes
  • calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
  • calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
  • calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
  • camaraderie — Camaraderie is a feeling of trust and friendship among a group of people who have usually known each other for a long time or gone through some kind of experience together.
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • camouflaged — concealed or disguised
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
  • can't abide — If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much.
  • can't stand — find intolerable
  • canada lily — a lily, Lilium canadense, of NE North America, with small orange funnel-shaped nodding flowers
  • canada lynx — a North American lynx (Lynx lynx canadensis) with tufted ears and a stubby tail
  • canadianism — the Canadian national character or spirit
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