11-letter words containing c, o, d, l, e
- clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
- classloader — (computing, Java) A mechanism for dynamically loading classes into a virtual machine.
- cleaned out — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- clear round — an instance of a horse and rider clearing all barriers without making any mistakes
- clock speed — clock rate
- clodhoppers — a large heavy shoe or boot
- clopidogrel — An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C16H16ClNO2S.
- close order — an arrangement of troops in compact units at close intervals and distances, as for marching
- close round — to encircle; surround
- closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
- closed door — held in strict privacy; not open to the press or the public: a closed-door strategy meeting of banking executives.
- closed game — a relatively complex game involving closed ranks and files and permitting only nontactical positional manoeuvring
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- closed rule — a rule that prohibits amendments to a bill from the floor.
- closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
- closed term — (theory) A term with no free variables.
- closed-door — private; barred to members of the public
- closed-loop — of or relating to a processing system in which effluents are recycled, that is, treated and returned for reuse.
- closefisted — stingy
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloth-eared — deaf
- cloud cover — the state of the sky when it is covered with cloud
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- cloudlessly — Without clouds.
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
- code letter — a letter which is part of a code
- code police — (humour) (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
- codeveloper — a fellow developer
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- cold cellar — root cellar.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- cold-rolled — (of metal sheets, etc) having been rolled without heating, producing a smooth surface finish
- cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
- coldblooded — having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
- coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- collectedly — In a collected manner; calmly.
- color index — the difference between the apparent photographic magnitude and the apparent visual magnitude of a star.
- color model — colour model
- color-coded — Things that are color-coded use colors to represent different features or functions.
- color-field — designating or of a style of abstract painting in which colors are applied to a canvas, often in large patches, with little variation in tone and little emphasis on form
- color-slide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- coloradoite — a mineral, mercury telluride, HgTe, occurring in the form of grayish-black masses.
- colour code — a system of easily distinguishable colours, as for the identification of electrical wires or resistors
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour