12-letter words containing d, e, c, n
- calendar art — a type of sentimental, picturesque, or sexually titillating picture used on some calendars.
- calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
- call-by-need — (reduction) A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
- cancelpoodle — (messaging) (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
- candied peel — fruit skin which has been impregnated or encrusted with sugar or syrup, esp that of citrus fruits
- candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
- candleholder — a candlestick
- candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cankeredness — spitefulness or crabbedness
- canned goods — tinned food produce
- cannibalised — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalise.
- cannibalized — Simple past tense and past participle of cannibalize.
- cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- cape dezhnev — a cape in NE Russia at the E end of Chukchi Peninsula: the northeasternmost point of Asia
- cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
- cape verdean — of or relating to Cape Verde or its inhabitants
- 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.
- cardinal red — a deep, vivid red colour
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- carrick bend — type of knot
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- casehardened — Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.
- cash advance — an amount of money borrowed as a short-term loan against a salary, credit card, etc
- center field — the middle area of the outfield
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- centeredness — The state of being centered.
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- cerinic acid — cerotic acid.
- chained lady — the constellation Andromeda.
- chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
- chandeliered — having a chandelier
- change hands — to pass from one owner to another
- change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
- changearound — the act of changing to a different position
- cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
- cheerleading — the action or skill of a cheerleader.
- chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
- chicken head — (graphics, abuse) The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
- chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
- child minder — a person who looks after children, esp those whose parents are working
- child-minder — a baby-sitter.
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- childishness — of, like, or befitting a child: childish games.
- childrearing — the raising and parenting of children: Childrearing extends beyond simple guardianship to nurturing and guidance.
- chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron