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12-letter words containing c, o, d, e

  • food science — the study of the nature of foods and the changes that occur in them naturally and as a result of handling and processing.
  • food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
  • food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
  • forced entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
  • forced-draft — using a flow of air or air forced through a pipe or system of pipes by fans or blowers: a forced-draft central heating system.
  • forked chain — branched chain.
  • fort detrick — a military reservation in N Maryland, NW of Frederick.
  • forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
  • foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
  • found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
  • fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
  • french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • friend-court — amicus curiae.
  • frondescence — the process or period of putting forth leaves, as a tree, plant, or the like.
  • fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
  • fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
  • funnel cloud — a rapidly rotating funnel-shaped cloud extending downward from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, which, if it touches the surface of the earth, is a tornado or waterspout.
  • galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
  • genetic code — the biochemical instructions that translate the genetic information present as a linear sequence of nucleotide triplets in messenger RNA into the correct linear sequence of amino acids for the synthesis of a particular peptide chain or protein. Compare codon, translation (def 9).
  • genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
  • geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
  • glycerolipid — (organic chemistry) Any lipid based on glycerol.
  • glycopeptide — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
  • glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
  • glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
  • go on record — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
  • go-go dancer — an entertainer who performs popular dances on a stage or platform for the patrons of a discotheque or nightclub.
  • golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
  • good offices — Someone's good offices are the help that they give to other people who are trying to achieve something.
  • grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
  • grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
  • grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
  • ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
  • ground force — a military force that operates on the ground
  • gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
  • haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
  • half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • hamming code — (algorithm)   Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
  • hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
  • helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
  • hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
  • hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
  • henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
  • hendecagonal — (geometry) Having eleven sides an angles; similar to a hendecagon.
  • heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
  • heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
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