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12-letter words containing d, e, c, o, y

  • country-bred — brought up in the country
  • creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
  • crossed eyes — strabismus, especially the form in which one or both eyes turn inward.
  • curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
  • curry powder — Curry powder is a powder made from a mixture of spices. It is used in cooking, especially when making curry.
  • cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
  • cyclodextrin — any of a group of cyclic oligosaccharides found in starch digests of certain bacteria
  • cysticercoid — the larva of any of certain tapeworms, which resembles a cysticercus but has a smaller bladder
  • d'oyly carte — Richard. 1844–1901, British impresario noted for his productions of the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan
  • debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
  • decoratively — In a decorative manner.
  • deep ecology — a radical environmental movement and philosophy that regards humans as equal to other organisms within the global ecosystem.
  • demoniacally — In a demoniacal manner.
  • denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
  • depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
  • despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
  • despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
  • deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
  • dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
  • dicotyledons — Plural form of dicotyledon.
  • dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
  • dictyostelic — Of or possessing a dictyostele.
  • diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.
  • dislocatedly — in a dislocated manner
  • dodecagynian — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
  • dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
  • dodecastylos — a dodecastyle building, as a classical temple.
  • domestically — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
  • double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
  • dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
  • duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
  • duodenectomy — a complete or incomplete removal of the duodenum
  • dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
  • duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
  • duty officer — In the police or armed forces, a duty officer is an officer who is on duty at a particular time.
  • dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
  • eco-friendly — environmentally safe
  • ectrodactyly — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • electrolyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of electrolyze.
  • electrotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of electrotype.
  • encyclopedia — An encyclopedia is a book or set of books in which facts about many different subjects or about one particular subject are arranged for reference, usually in alphabetical order.
  • encyclopedic — Comprehensive in terms of information.
  • epicycloidal — Of or pertaining to an epicycloid.
  • episodically — In an episodic manner; in episodes.
  • ex-directory — phone number: not listed publicly
  • ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
  • field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
  • fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
  • forced entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
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