12-letter words containing c, o, r, d, l
- circumvolved — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve.
- cladocarpous — pleurocarpous.
- cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium
- clam chowder — chowder containing clams
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
- clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
- clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
- close-reefed — having most or all of the sail reefs taken in.
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- cold comfort — If you say that a slightly encouraging fact or event is cold comfort to someone, you mean that it gives them little or no comfort because their situation is so difficult or unpleasant.
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- cold warrior — a person who engages in or promotes a cold war
- cold working — Cold working is a process in which metal is shaped at a fairly low temperature. This increases the metal's yield strength but makes it less ductile.
- cold-hearted — A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
- cold-pressed — (of an unrefined oil such as olive oil) produced by pressing the parent seed, nut, or grain at the lowest possible temperature without any further pressing
- collaborated — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- colour depth — bits per pixel
- colour guard — a military guard in a parade, ceremony, etc, that carries and escorts the flag or regimental colours
- colour index — the difference between the apparent magnitude of a star measured in one standard waveband and in a longer standard waveband, indicating its colour and temperature
- colour model — (graphics) Any system for representing colours as ordered sets of numbers. The most common colour models are RGB, CMYK, and HSB. There are several others, e.g. CMY, and the "Lab" system(?). See also: Pantone.
- colour slide — a colour transparency
- colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
- colour-coded — Things that are colour-coded use colours to represent different features or functions.
- column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- compressedly — in a compressed manner
- concordantly — agreeing; harmonious.
- conductorial — relating to a conductor
- conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- consolidator — a person or thing that consolidates
- contractedly — in a shortened manner
- control code — (character) A character code for a control character, normally including the values 0..31 or 127, inherited from ASCII, possibly extended to include other characters by the operating system or application program.
- coordinately — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- cordialities — cordial quality or feeling.
- cotyledonary — the primary or rudimentary leaf of the embryo of seed plants.
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- counterworld — an alternative world opposite to the virtual world
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- cradleboards — Plural form of cradleboard.
- craniocaudal — (anatomy) From the cranial to the caudal end of a structure.
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- cross-legged — If someone is sitting cross-legged, they are sitting on the floor with their legs bent so that their knees point outwards.