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

  • consolidative — Tending or having power to consolidate.
  • constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
  • consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
  • containerised — Simple past tense and past participle of containerise.
  • containerized — Simple past tense and past participle of containerize.
  • contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • contemporized — Simple past tense and past participle of contemporize.
  • contentedness — satisfied; content.
  • continuedness — the state of being continued
  • contradictive — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
  • copolymerized — Polymerized, along with another compound, to form a copolymer.
  • copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
  • cordocentesis — the extraction of a sample of blood from the umbilical cord during pregnancy
  • core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
  • 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.
  • corresponding — parallel; equivalent
  • corrie-fisted — left-handed
  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
  • costa del sol — coast region of S Spain, on the Mediterranean, east of Gibraltar: site of many resorts
  • 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.
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
  • 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.
  • coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
  • coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
  • courtesy card — a privilege card
  • covalent bond — a type of chemical bond involving the sharing of electrons between atoms in a molecule, esp the sharing of a pair of electrons by two adjacent atoms
  • covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
  • cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
  • cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
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