13-letter words containing c, o, d, e, t, r
- contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contemporized — Simple past tense and past participle of contemporize.
- contradictive — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- cordocentesis — the extraction of a sample of blood from the umbilical cord during pregnancy
- coresidential — relating to joint residency
- corespondents — Plural form of corespondent.
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- correspondent — A correspondent is a newspaper or television journalist, especially one who specializes in a particular type of news.
- corrie-fisted — left-handed
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- cote d'ivoire — a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: Portuguese trading for ivory and slaves began in the 16th century; made a French protectorate in 1842 and became independent in 1960; major producer of coffee and cocoa. Official language: French. Religion: Muslim majority, with animist, atheist, and Roman Catholic minorities. Currency: franc. Capital: Yamoussoukro (administrative); Abidjan (legislative). Pop: 22 400 835 (2013 est). Area: 319 820 sq km (123 483 sq miles)
- côtes-d'armor — a department of W France, on the N coast of Brittany. Capital: St Brieuc. Pop: 553 969 (2003 est). Area: 6878 sq km (2656 sq miles)
- cotes-du-nord — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- counter-order — an order which revokes a previous order
- counter-trend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
- counterdemand — a demand made in response to another demand
- counterfeited — Simple past tense and past participle of counterfeit.
- countermanded — Simple past tense and past participle of countermand.
- countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
- counterorders — Plural form of counterorder.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- country dance — a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line
- country-dance — a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.
- courtesy card — a privilege card
- covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
- cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
- crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
- decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
- decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
- decelerometer — an instrument for measuring deceleration
- decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
- dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
- decision tree — a treelike diagram illustrating the choices available to a decision maker, each possible decision and its estimated outcome being shown as a separate branch of the tree
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- deconcentrate — to make or become less concentrated
- deconsecrated — (of a church) having been transferred to secular use
- deconsecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconsecrate.
- deconstructed — having no formal structure
- deconstructor — an adherent to the theory of deconstruction