12-letter words containing c, o, d, e
- backgrounded — Simple past tense and past participle of background.
- backgrounder — A backgrounder is a short article in a newspaper or magazine that provides background information about a particular subject.
- backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
- bacteriocide — Alternative form of bactericide.
- baklava code — (humour, programming) Code with too many layers. Also known as Lasagne Code.
- banner cloud — a plume-shaped cloud extending downwind from an isolated mountain peak. Also called cloud banner. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- beaconsfield — a town in SE England, in Buckinghamshire. Pop: 12 292 (2001)
- bed-blocking — the use of hospital beds by elderly patients who cannot leave hospital because they have no place in a residential care home
- bedford cord — a heavy corded cloth, similar to corduroy
- benzoic acid — a white crystalline solid occurring in many natural resins, used in the manufacture of benzoates, plasticizers, and dyes and as a food preservative (E210). Formula: C6H5COOH
- betws-y-coed — a village in N Wales, in Conwy county borough, on the River Conwy: noted for its scenery. Pop: 534 (2001)
- beyond price — invaluable or priceless
- beyond reach — inaccessible
- biopesticide — a naturally occurring or derived substance or an organism that controls pests by nontoxic means
- bird colonel — a full colonel in the US Army
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
- blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
- blocked shoe — a dancing shoe with a stiffened toe that enables a ballet dancer to dance on the tips of the toes
- bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- body-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- boletic acid — fumaric acid.
- booch method — (programming) A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
- breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- broken chord — a chord played as an arpeggio
- cacodaemonic — Daemonic.
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
- cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
- caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
- calycoideous — calycoid
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
- canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
- cancelpoodle — (messaging) (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
- candleholder — a candlestick
- canned goods — tinned food produce
- cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
- cape cod bay — a part of Massachusetts Bay, enclosed by the Cape Cod peninsula.
- cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
- cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique