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13-letter words containing c, o, d, e, t

  • 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
  • culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.
  • custody suite — the part of a police station where people who have been arrested are held in custody
  • 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."
  • dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
  • dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
  • dance hostess — a woman who hosts a ball at her house
  • 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
  • daytona beach — a city in NE Florida, on the Atlantic: a resort with a beach of hard white sand, used since 1903 for motor speed trials. Pop: 64 581 (2003 est)
  • de-excitation — to cause (an atom) to fall from an excited energy level to a lower energy level.
  • deacetylation — to remove the acetyl group from (an organic compound).
  • debit account — a bank account which allows you to buy goods or services with money that you have put into the account
  • debt covenant — A debt covenant is a number of restrictions that a borrower agrees to that are set by the lending institution.
  • decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
  • decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
  • 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
  • deception bed — any of various kinds of concealed or disguised beds designed in the 18th century.
  • decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
  • dechorionated — (biology) From which the chorion has been removed.
  • decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
  • decision time — a time at which an important decision must be taken
  • 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
  • declinational — Relating to declination.
  • declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
  • decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
  • decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
  • decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
  • decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
  • deconcentrate — to make or become less concentrated
  • deconditioned — to diminish the physical strength, stamina, or vitality of; weaken.
  • deconflicting — Present participle of deconflict.
  • deconfliction — The act or process of deconflicting.
  • decongestants — Plural form of decongestant.
  • 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
  • decontaminate — To decontaminate something means to remove all germs or dangerous substances from it.
  • deconvolution — A process of resolving something into its constituent elements or removing complication in order to clarify it.
  • decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
  • decortication — the act or process of decorticating.
  • decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
  • deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
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