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12-letter words containing d, e, c, n

  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
  • chondriosome — mitochondrion
  • chondrophore — a medusoid hydrozoan that resembles a jellyfish
  • chord change — a movement from one chord to another
  • chordophones — Plural form of chordophone.
  • churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
  • ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
  • cinchonidine — an alkaloid that is a stereoisomer of cinchonine, with similar properties and uses
  • cinder block — A cinder block is a large grey brick made from coal cinders and cement which is used for building.
  • 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
  • circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • city edition — an early edition of a daily newspaper on sale locally, usually a later edition than the one sent for out-of-town distribution.
  • civic-minded — having, showing, or actively carrying out one's concern for the condition and affairs of one's community; public-spirited
  • civilianized — Simple past tense and past participle of civilianize.
  • cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
  • 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.
  • clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
  • clean-handed — free from wrongdoing; guiltless.
  • clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
  • clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  • cloddishness — The quality of being cloddish.
  • closed chain — any structural arrangement, used in the models and formulas of molecules, consisting of a chain of atoms that forms a closed geometric figure; ring
  • closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
  • closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
  • closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
  • clotheslined — Simple past tense and past participle of clothesline.
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • clovenfooted — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
  • co-dependent — A co-dependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
  • co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
  • cobblestoned — Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
  • cockeyedness — the condition of being cockeyed
  • code grinder — (jargon, abuse)   A suit-wearing minion of the sort hired in legion strength by banks and insurance companies in the Real World to implement payroll packages in RPG and other such unspeakable horrors. In its native habitat, the code grinder often removes the suit jacket to reveal an underplumage consisting of button-down shirt (starch optional) and a tie. In times of dire stress, the sleeves (if long) may be rolled up and the tie loosened about half an inch. It seldom helps. The code grinder's milieu is about as far from hackerdom as one can get and still touch a computer; the term connotes pity. Used of or to a hacker, this term is a really serious slur on the person's creative ability; it connotes a design style characterised by primitive technique, rule-boundedness, brute force and utter lack of imagination. Compare card walloper. Contrast real programmer.
  • code segment — (memory)   (Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the machine code instructions of a program. The code segment of a program may be shared between multiple processes running that code so long as none of them tries to modify it. Initialised data is located in the data segment.
  • code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
  • codefendants — Plural form of codefendant.
  • codependence — (uncountable) The state of being co-dependent.
  • codependency — of or relating to a relationship in which one person is physically or psychologically addicted, as to alcohol or gambling, and the other person is psychologically dependent on the first in an unhealthy way.
  • coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
  • coincidences — Plural form of coincidence.
  • coincidental — Something that is coincidental is the result of a coincidence and has not been deliberately arranged.
  • coincidently — in a coincident manner
  • collodionize — (transitive) To prepare or treat with collodion.
  • colonialised — to make colonial.
  • colonialized — to make colonial.
  • colour index — the difference between the apparent magnitude of a star measured in one standard waveband and in a longer standard waveband, indicating its colour and temperature
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