12-letter words containing c, n, d
- country code — a code of good practice recommended to those who use the countryside for recreational purposes
- country road — a road in the country
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- crane driver — a person who drives a crane
- craniocaudal — (anatomy) From the cranial to the caudal end of a structure.
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- credentialed — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- credibleness — The state or quality of being credible.
- credit entry — an accounting entry showing income or capital assets
- credit union — A credit union is a financial institution that offers its members low-interest loans.
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossed line — interference on a telephone line that causes more than two callers to be connected
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- crowned head — a monarch
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- cum dividend — (of shares, etc) with the right to current dividend
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- cut and fill — a process of localized gradation whereby material eroded from one place is deposited a short distance away.
- cutting edge — If you are at the cutting edge of a particular field of activity, you are involved in its most important or most exciting developments.
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyberfriends — Plural form of cyberfriend.
- cyclandelate — a medicine for relaxing smooth muscle and encouraging blood cell dilation
- cyclodextrin — any of a group of cyclic oligosaccharides found in starch digests of certain bacteria
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- cylindricity — the state or quality of being cylindrical
- cylindriform — having the form or shape of a cylinder
- cyprinodonts — Plural form of cyprinodont.
- dactinomycin — a cytotoxic polypeptide, C 62 H 86 N 12 O 16 , isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces parvullus, used in the treatment of certain cancers.
- dance on air — to move one's feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, especially to the accompaniment of music.
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- dancing girl — a professional female dancer who dances to entertain customers at a club, theatre, etc
- dancing step — balanced step.
- daniell cell — a type of cell having a zinc anode in dilute sulphuric acid separated by a porous barrier from a copper cathode in copper sulphate solution. It has an emf of 1.1 volts
- dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated