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13-letter words containing d, a, n, i

  • consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
  • containerised — Simple past tense and past participle of containerise.
  • containerized — Simple past tense and past participle of containerize.
  • contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
  • contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
  • contradicting — Present participle of contradict.
  • contradiction — If you describe an aspect of a situation as a contradiction, you mean that it is completely different from other aspects, and so makes the situation confused or difficult to understand.
  • contradictive — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • contradictory — If two or more facts, ideas, or statements are contradictory, they state or imply that opposite things are true.
  • convalidation — In Roman Catholic canon law, the making of a putative marriage valid following the removal of some impediment.
  • cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
  • coordinations — the act or state of coordinating or of being coordinated.
  • 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
  • corn marigold — an annual plant, Chrysanthemum segetum, with yellow daisy-like flower heads: a common weed of cultivated land: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
  • cranial index — the ratio of the greatest length to the greatest width of the cranium, multiplied by 100: used in comparative anthropology
  • crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
  • credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
  • credentialled — having credentials
  • credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
  • credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
  • criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
  • cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
  • crotonic acid — type of colourless acid
  • crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
  • custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • cyanuric acid — a white crystalline powder commonly used to stabilize chlorine in swimming pools. Formula C3H3N3O3
  • cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
  • cycloaddition — a type of pericyclic chemical reaction
  • cylinder head — the detachable metal casting that fits onto the top of a cylinder block. In an engine it contains part of the combustion chamber and in an overhead-valve four-stroke engine it houses the valves and their operating mechanisms
  • cylinder seal — a cylindrical seal of stone, clay, or precious stone decorated with linear designs, found in the Middle East and Balkans: dating from about 6000 bc
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • cylindrically — In the manner of a cylinder.
  • cytodiagnosis — the diagnosis of disease through the study of cells in the body
  • dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
  • dactyliomancy — the use of a suspended finger-ring for divination
  • dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
  • daman and diu — a union territory in W India: formerly a district of Portuguese India (1559–1961) then part of the union territory of Goa, Daman, and Diu (1961–87). Area: 112 sq km (43 sq miles). Pop: 158 059 (2001)
  • damnification — That which causes damage or loss.
  • dancing class — a meeting of a group of student dancers for tuition in dancing
  • dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
  • dandification — The condition or state of a man who is overly concerned about his clothes and appearance.
  • danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
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