11-letter words containing d, c, s
- coude-focus — a telescope in which light from the primary mirror is reflected along the polar axis to additional mirrors, and in which the focus (coudé focus) is independent of the telescope's motion, permitting the use of heavy instruments without disturbing the delicate balance of the telescope.
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- countersued — Simple past tense and past participle of countersue.
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- court dress — the formal clothing worn at court
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- crab spider — any of a family (Thomisidae) of spiders that move sideways like crabs
- crabbedness — The state or quality of being crabbed.
- cracked gas — Cracked gas is gas from a refining process, which is often compressed afterwards.
- craggedness — the quality of being cragged
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
- credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
- credit risk — a person or institution judged to be unlikely to be able to repay a loan
- credit side — the side of a balance sheet showing income and assets
- credit slip — A credit slip is the same as a credit note.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
- crescendoed — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crescendoes — Plural form of crescendo.
- crescentade — a religious crusade or war fought under the flag of Turkey
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- crested tit — a small European songbird, Parus cristatus, that has a greyish-brown plumage with a prominent speckled black-and-white crest: family Paridae (tits)
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- crookedness — The state of being crooked.
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cross-breed — If one species of animal or plant cross-breeds with another, they reproduce, and new or different animals or plants are produced. You can also say that someone cross-breeds something such as an animal or plant.
- cross-dress — If someone cross-dresses, they wear the clothes of the opposite sex, especially for sexual pleasure.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cross-index — a note or notes referring the reader to other material
- cross-nodal — having to do with interaction between the senses
- cross-slide — the part of a lathe or planing machine on which the tool post is mounted and across which it slides at right angles to the bed of the lathe
- cross-trade — cross (def 26).
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- crossbedded — having layers of rock oblique or transverse to the main beds of stratified rock
- crossbreeds — Plural form of crossbreed.
- crossfaders — Plural form of crossfader.
- crosslegged — Alternative spelling of cross-legged.
- crossruffed — Simple past tense and past participle of crossruff.
- crowd scene — (in a film, play, or television programme) a scene in which a crowd appears
- crowdedness — The state or quality of being crowded.
- crowdsource — to outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- crowstepped — (of a gable) having crow steps
- crude steel — unrefined steel
- crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.