11-letter words containing c, o, d, a
- coup d'état — When there is a coup d'état, a group of people seize power in a country.
- coup d’état — When there is a coup d’état, a group of people seize power in a country.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- cradle roof — a roof having trusses the undersides of which form an arch.
- cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
- crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- crocodilian — any large predatory reptile of the order Crocodilia, which includes the crocodiles, alligators, and caymans. They live in or near water and have a long broad snout, powerful jaws, a four-chambered heart, and socketed teeth
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cross-nodal — having to do with interaction between the senses
- cross-trade — cross (def 26).
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- crossfaders — Plural form of crossfader.
- crowder pea — any variety of cowpea bearing pods with closely spaced seeds.
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
- crystalloid — resembling or having the appearance or properties of a crystal or crystalloid
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- cyanidation — (metallurgy) The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process.
- cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
- cycadaceous — belonging or pertaining to the order Cycadales.
- cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
- cyclopaedia — (archaic) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.
- cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
- dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
- dactylogram — a fingerprint
- dactylology — the method of using manual sign language, as in communicating with deaf people
- dactylonomy — The use of one's fingers to express numbers.
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dance floor — In a restaurant or night club, the dance floor is the area where people can dance.
- dark comedy — a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- db2 catalog — (database) An IBM DB2 system table listing all objects in a database installation including hosts, servers, databases, tables and many more. Commands are provided to manage the catalog, e.g. db2 catalog database mydatabase on /databases/mydatabase to add a database reference.
- de la roche — Mazo [mey-zoh] /ˈmeɪ zoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1961, Canadian novelist.
- deaccession — to sell (a work of art) from a museum's or gallery's collections, especially with a view to acquiring funds for the purchase of other works.
- deacon seat — a bench running most of the length of a bunkhouse in a lumbering camp.
- deaconesses — Plural form of deaconess.
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- dead-reckon — to calculate (one's position) by means of dead reckoning.
- deadlocking — Present participle of deadlock.
- deallocated — Simple past tense and past participle of deallocate.
- deallocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deallocate.
- deallocator — One who, or that which, deallocates.