13-letter words containing d, e, c, n
- 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 crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
- 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.
- credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- creep-feeding — the practice of feeding young farm animals (esp piglets, calves, and lambs) in a sectioned-off part of their indoor environment, in order to prevent the mother from gaining access to the food
- crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
- criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
- crossdressing — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
- culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
- currency bond — a bond payable in legal tender.
- current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
- 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 paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
- cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
- cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
- cut-and-paste — assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
- cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
- cylinder desk — a desk having a cylinder front, usually a tambour but occasionally of solid wood.
- 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
- damson cheese — thick damson jam
- dance company — a group of dancers, usually including business and technical personnel
- dance hostess — a woman who hosts a ball at her house
- dance therapy — the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- danse macabre — dance of death
- dark reaction — the stage of photosynthesis involving the reduction of carbon dioxide and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP: does not require the presence of light
- dataveillance — the surveillance of a person's activities by studying the data trail created by actions such as credit card purchases, mobile phone calls, and internet use
- dating agency — an agency that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- daytona beach — a city in NE Florida, on the Atlantic: a resort with a beach of hard white sand, used since 1903 for motor speed trials. Pop: 64 581 (2003 est)
- de-excitation — to cause (an atom) to fall from an excited energy level to a lower energy level.
- deaccessioned — Simple past tense and past participle of deaccession.
- deacetylation — to remove the acetyl group from (an organic compound).
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- debit account — a bank account which allows you to buy goods or services with money that you have put into the account
- debit balance — the amount of money owed to a lender, etc
- debt covenant — A debt covenant is a number of restrictions that a borrower agrees to that are set by the lending institution.
- decaffeinated — Decaffeinated coffee has had most of the caffeine removed from it.
- decahistidine — An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties.
- decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
- decanoic acid — white crystalline insoluble carboxylic acid with an unpleasant odour, used in perfumes and for making fruit flavours
- decant tenant — a person who has had to leave their previous accommodation while it is being rebuilt or refurbished
- decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.