13-letter words containing c, u, r, d
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- church of god — any of numerous Protestant denominations that stress personal conversion, sanctification, the imminent return of Jesus Christ, baptism by immersion, and, among some, speaking in tongues.
- church parade — a parade by servicemen or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- circuit board — A circuit board is the same as a printed circuit board.
- circuit judge — a judge presiding over a county court or crown court
- circuit rider — (formerly) a minister of religion who preached from place to place along an established circuit
- circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
- circumductory — relating to circumduction
- circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- ciudad juarez — a city in N Mexico, in Chihuahua state on the Río Grande, opposite El Paso, Texas. Pop: 1 469 000 (2005 est)
- ciudad madero — city in Tamaulipas state, EC Mexico: suburb of Tampico: pop. 160,000
- clair de lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
- clair-de-lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
- clairaudience — the postulated ability to hear sounds beyond the range of normal hearing
- closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- co-production — a film, play, television programme, etc, produced by two or more people or organizations
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
- coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
- coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
- cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
- cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
- colorado ruby — a fire-red form of garnet found in Colorado and other parts of North America
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- common ground — If two people or groups find common ground, they agree about something, especially when they do not agree about other things.
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- computer nerd — someone who is inordinately preoccupied with using computers, at the expense of ordinary social skills
- conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
- conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.
- congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- conquistadors — Plural form of conquistador.
- corduroy road — a road across swampy ground, made of logs laid transversely
- costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- cotes-du-nord — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- count rumford — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
- count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
- counter-order — an order which revokes a previous order
- counter-trend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
- counterdemand — a demand made in response to another demand
- counterfeited — Simple past tense and past participle of counterfeit.
- countermanded — Simple past tense and past participle of countermand.
- countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
- counterorders — Plural form of counterorder.