11-letter words containing c, r, e, d
- childminder — A childminder is someone whose job it is to look after children when the children's parents are away or are at work. Childminders usually work in their own homes.
- chili verde — a stew of beef or pork, or both, flavored with hot green peppers.
- chinese red — a bright red colour
- chlordecone — a highly toxic pesticide, C 10 H 10 O, causing nerve damage in humans, that is believed to contaminate waterways: no longer widely used.
- chlorinated — Chlorinated water, for example drinking water or water in a swimming pool, has been cleaned by adding chlorine to it.
- chondrified — Simple past tense and past participle of chondrify.
- chondrocyte — A cell that makes up the tissue of cartilage.
- chordophone — any musical instrument producing sounds through the vibration of strings, such as the piano, harp, violin, or guitar
- choreodrama — dance drama performed by a group
- chowderhead — a fool or an idiot
- christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
- chrome dome — a baldheaded person.
- chrome-dome — a baldheaded person.
- chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
- chrysoidine — a red-brown or greenish-black, crystalline solid, C 12 H 13 N 4 Cl, that yields orange colors in aqueous or alcohol solution: used chiefly in dyeing cotton and silk.
- chrysomelid — a vibrantly-coloured beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae that eats the leaves of plants
- church mode — a mode belonging to a codified system of modes in use in Gregorian chant and in other music to c1600.
- cider press — a press for crushing apples for cider.
- cider-apple — a variety of apple suitable for use in cider-making
- cider-press — a type of press used to extract the juice from apples to make cider
- cinder cone — a small, conical volcano built of ash and cinders.
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- circumcised — (of an man) Having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
- circumcized — Simple past tense and past participle of circumcize.
- circumfused — Simple past tense and past participle of circumfuse.
- cire perdue — a method of casting bronze, in which a mould is formed around a wax pattern, which is subsequently melted and drained away
- city editor — The city editor of a newspaper is the editor who is in charge of local news.
- ciudad real — a market town in S central Spain. Pop: 65 703 (2003 est)
- cladocerans — Plural form of cladoceran.
- clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- classloader — (computing, Java) A mechanism for dynamically loading classes into a virtual machine.
- clear round — an instance of a horse and rider clearing all barriers without making any mistakes
- clearheaded — having or indicating a clear mind; lucid; unconfused
- clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
- 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 door — held in strict privacy; not open to the press or the public: a closed-door strategy meeting of banking executives.
- closed rule — a rule that prohibits amendments to a bill from the floor.
- closed term — (theory) A term with no free variables.
- closed-door — private; barred to members of the public
- 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.
- co-director — to direct (a movie or other performance) with another or others.
- co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- co-producer — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
- coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.