12-letter words containing d, a, n, t
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
- cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
- calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
- call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
- candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cantharidian — cantharidal
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
- cardan joint — type of universal joint
- cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- cat standard — (in Britain) a standard accepted voluntarily by building societies relating to charges, access, etc, against which Individual Savings Accounts can be judged
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
- chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- chondrostian — relating to the class Chondrostei of fish with fin rays
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
- co-ordinator — a person or thing that coordinates.
- coadaptation — the state of two or more things adapting to one another
- codefendants — Plural form of codefendant.
- codification — the systematic organization of methods, rules, etc
- coincidental — Something that is coincidental is the result of a coincidence and has not been deliberately arranged.
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- come to hand — to become available; be received
- command post — A command post is a place from which a commander in the army controls and organizes his forces.
- commandments — a command or mandate.
- commendation — the act or an instance of commending; praise
- commendatory — serving to commend; expressing praise or approval
- communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- concamerated — Simple past tense and past participle of concamerate.
- concatenated — Simple past tense and past participle of concatenate.
- concentrated — A concentrated liquid has been increased in strength by having water removed from it.
- concertinaed — a musical instrument resembling an accordion but having buttonlike keys, hexagonal bellows and ends, and a more limited range.