11-letter words containing c, i, d, e
- christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
- chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
- chrysoidine — a red-brown or greenish-black, crystalline solid, C 12 H 13 N 4 Cl, that yields orange colors in aqueous or alcohol solution: used chiefly in dyeing cotton and silk.
- chrysomelid — a vibrantly-coloured beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae that eats the leaves of plants
- cider press — a press for crushing apples for cider.
- cider-apple — a variety of apple suitable for use in cider-making
- cider-press — a type of press used to extract the juice from apples to make cider
- cinder cone — a small, conical volcano built of ash and cinders.
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- cinematized — Simple past tense and past participle of cinematize.
- circumcised — (of an man) Having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
- circumcized — Simple past tense and past participle of circumcize.
- circumfused — Simple past tense and past participle of circumfuse.
- cire perdue — a method of casting bronze, in which a mould is formed around a wax pattern, which is subsequently melted and drained away
- citizenhood — The state of being a citizen.
- city editor — The city editor of a newspaper is the editor who is in charge of local news.
- ciudad real — a market town in S central Spain. Pop: 65 703 (2003 est)
- civil death — (formerly) the loss of all civil rights because of a serious conviction
- clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
- clandestine — Something that is clandestine is hidden or kept secret, often because it is illegal.
- classicized — Simple past tense and past participle of classicize.
- classifieds — The classifieds are the same as classified ad.
- cleanlimbed — having shapely limbs
- clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
- clopidogrel — An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C16H16ClNO2S.
- closefisted — stingy
- cnidogenous — producing or containing nematocysts.
- co-director — to direct (a movie or other performance) with another or others.
- co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- code dating — the system of marking products with the date when they were packed
- code police — (humour) (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
- codirection — joint direction
- codirectors — Plural form of codirector.
- codominance — Ecology. being one of two or more species that are equally dominant in a biotic community: a forest in which oak and hickory are codominant.
- coeducation — instruction in schools, colleges, etc, attended by both sexes
- coextending — Present participle of coextend.
- cohabitated — cohabit.
- coincidence — A coincidence is when two or more similar or related events occur at the same time by chance and without any planning.
- coincidency — a coincident state
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- color index — the difference between the apparent photographic magnitude and the apparent visual magnitude of a star.
- color-field — designating or of a style of abstract painting in which colors are applied to a canvas, often in large patches, with little variation in tone and little emphasis on form
- color-slide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- coloradoite — a mineral, mercury telluride, HgTe, occurring in the form of grayish-black masses.
- columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
- comedically — from a comedic point of view or in a comedic manner
- comediennes — Plural form of comedienne.
- comedogenic — producing or causing blackheads or acne