13-letter words containing c, o, d, l, e
- college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
- college-bound — intending to go to college
- collodionized — Simple past tense and past participle of collodionize.
- colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- compiled html — (filename extension) A Microsoft file format for distributing a collection of HTML files, along with their associated images, sounds, etc., as a single compressed archive file. Microsoft use this format for Windows HTML Help files. Most chms include a project (.hhp) file listing the included files and basic settings, a contents (.hhc) file, an index (.hhk) file, html files, and, optionally, image files. Users view chms with hh.exe, the HTML Help viewer installed with Internet Explorer. Filename extension: .chm.
- completedness — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- complexedness — complexity
- complicatedly — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- comstock lode — an extensive gold and silver vein in W Nevada, near Virginia City
- conditionable — able to be conditioned
- conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideringly — in a considering manner
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- consolidative — Tending or having power to consolidate.
- constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
- 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.
- 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
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- 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
- coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
- countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- 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
- cream-colored — yellowish-white
- credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- 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."
- cycloheximide — a toxic antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis, used as a fungicide in agriculture
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
- deacetylation — to remove the acetyl group from (an organic compound).
- decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).