13-letter words containing c, i, u, d
- carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
- cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
- casual friday — In some companies, employees are allowed to wear clothes that are more informal than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a casual Friday.
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- caxias do sul — a city in S Brazil.
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
- child cruelty — cruelty directed against children
- child custody — custody (def 4).
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- child-custody — custody (def 4).
- chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- circuit board — A circuit board is the same as a printed circuit board.
- circuit judge — a judge presiding over a county court or crown court
- circuit rider — (formerly) a minister of religion who preached from place to place along an established circuit
- circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
- circumductory — relating to circumduction
- circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- ciudad juarez — a city in N Mexico, in Chihuahua state on the Río Grande, opposite El Paso, Texas. Pop: 1 469 000 (2005 est)
- ciudad madero — city in Tamaulipas state, EC Mexico: suburb of Tampico: pop. 160,000
- clair de lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
- clair-de-lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
- clairaudience — the postulated ability to hear sounds beyond the range of normal hearing
- cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
- cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- co-production — a film, play, television programme, etc, produced by two or more people or organizations
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
- cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- compound time — compound meter
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- condition out — (programming) A programming technique that prevents a section of code from being executed by putting it in an if statement whose condition is always false. It is often easier to do this than to comment out the code because you don't need to modify the code itself (as you would if commenting out each line individually) or worry about nested comments within the code (as you would if putting nesting comment delimiters around it). For example, in Perl you could write: if (0) { ...code to be ignored... } In a compiled language, the compiler could simply generate no code for the whole if statement. Some compiled languages such as C provide compile-time directives that achieve the same effect, e.g.: #if 0 ...code to be ignored... #endif (or "#ifdef notdef").
- conduciveness — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
- conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.
- confoundingly — in a confounding manner
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- conquistadors — Plural form of conquistador.
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
- continuedness — the state of being continued