11-letter words containing c, o, d, n, s
- crookedness — The state of being crooked.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cross-index — a note or notes referring the reader to other material
- cross-nodal — having to do with interaction between the senses
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crowd scene — (in a film, play, or television programme) a scene in which a crowd appears
- crowdedness — The state or quality of being crowded.
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- cylindroids — Plural form of cylindroid.
- cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- deaccession — to sell (a work of art) from a museum's or gallery's collections, especially with a view to acquiring funds for the purchase of other works.
- deacon seat — a bench running most of the length of a bunkhouse in a lumbering camp.
- deaconesses — Plural form of deaconess.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- decimations — Plural form of decimation.
- decisioning — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- declensions — Plural form of declension.
- decolonised — Simple past tense and past participle of decolonise.
- decolonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decolonize.
- decolorants — Plural form of decolorant.
- decomposing — Present participle of decompose.
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- decongested — Simple past tense and past participle of decongest.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decorations — Plural form of decoration.
- decrescendo — with a gradual decrease in loudness; diminuendo: often used as a musical direction: symbol 57381
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- dedications — Plural form of dedication.
- deflections — Plural form of deflection.
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- demoniacism — the state or practice of being possessed by a demon
- derecognise — Alternative spelling of derecognize.
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- description — You can say that something is beyond description, or that it defies description, to emphasize that it is very unusual, impressive, terrible, or extreme.
- desecration — a desecrating or being desecrated
- desiccation — Desiccation is the process of becoming completely dried out.
- despondence — state of being despondent; depression of spirits from loss of courage or hope; dejection.
- despondency — Despondency is a strong feeling of unhappiness caused by difficulties which you feel you cannot overcome.
- dessication — Misspelling of desiccation.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- detractions — Plural form of detraction.
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diagnostics — the art or practice of diagnosis, esp of diseases
- diatonicism — the use of diatonic harmony; composition in a diatonic idiom.
- dipsomaniac — a person with an irresistible craving for alcoholic drink.
- discerption — The action of pulling something apart.
- discoloring — Present participle of discolor.