12-letter words containing c, e, d
- chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
- chipped beef — dried or smoked beef sliced into shavings, often served in a cream sauce
- chloralamide — (chemistry) A compound of chloral and formic amide, used to induce sleep.
- chloroformed — Simple past tense and past participle of chloroform.
- chondriosome — mitochondrion
- chondrophore — a medusoid hydrozoan that resembles a jellyfish
- chord change — a movement from one chord to another
- chordophones — Plural form of chordophone.
- chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
- chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
- chrysomelids — Plural form of chrysomelid.
- churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
- cigar holder — a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigar while it is smoked
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- cinchonidine — an alkaloid that is a stereoisomer of cinchonine, with similar properties and uses
- cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- circularised — Simple past tense and past participle of circularise.
- circularized — Simple past tense and past participle of circularize.
- circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
- 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
- city dweller — a resident or inhabitant of a city
- city edition — an early edition of a daily newspaper on sale locally, usually a later edition than the one sent for out-of-town distribution.
- ciudad ojeda — a city in NW Venezuela, on Lake Maracaibo.
- civic-minded — having, showing, or actively carrying out one's concern for the condition and affairs of one's community; public-spirited
- civilianized — Simple past tense and past participle of civilianize.
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- clam chowder — chowder containing clams
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
- 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 bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
- clean-handed — free from wrongdoing; guiltless.
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- clear as mud — not at all clear
- clear-headed — If you describe someone as clear-headed, you mean that they are sensible and think clearly, especially in difficult situations.
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- cleidoic egg — egg of birds and insects
- 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