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13-letter words containing d, e, c, r

  • chicken-fried — (of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
  • child cruelty — cruelty directed against children
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • child rearing — the activity of rearing children
  • child version — (system management)   In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
  • child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
  • chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
  • chlorhexidine — an antiseptic compound used in skin cleansers, mouthwashes, etc
  • chlormerodrin — a white, bitter, odorless powder, ClHgN 2 H 11 O 2 , soluble in methanol and ethanol and slightly soluble in water, used in medicine as a diuretic.
  • chlorobromide — a chlorine and bromine compound joined to a metal
  • chopped liver — cooked liver chopped with onions and hard-boiled eggs and seasoned.
  • choreographed — You describe an activity involving several people as choreographed when it is arranged but is intended to appear natural.
  • chowderheaded — like a chowderhead; foolish
  • christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
  • chromic oxide — a bright-green crystalline powder, Cr 2 O 3 , insoluble in water: used in metallurgy and as the pigment chrome green.
  • chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
  • church parade — a parade by servicemen or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services
  • churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
  • cicada killer — a black or rust-colored digger wasp, Sphecius speciosis, with a yellow-banded abdomen, that preys on cicadas.
  • cider vinegar — a type of vinegar produced by the acetification of cider
  • cigarette end — the part of a cigarette that is held in the mouth and that remains unsmoked after it is finished
  • circuit judge — a judge presiding over a county court or crown court
  • circuit rider — (formerly) a minister of religion who preached from place to place along an established circuit
  • circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • ciudad juarez — a city in N Mexico, in Chihuahua state on the Río Grande, opposite El Paso, Texas. Pop: 1 469 000 (2005 est)
  • ciudad madero — city in Tamaulipas state, EC Mexico: suburb of Tampico: pop. 160,000
  • clair de lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
  • clair-de-lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
  • clairaudience — the postulated ability to hear sounds beyond the range of normal hearing
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • clearheadedly — In a clearheaded manner.
  • cliff dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
  • cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
  • close-cropped — Close-cropped hair or grass is cut very short.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
  • clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
  • cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  • co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
  • cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
  • cod-liver oil — Cod liver oil is a thick yellow oil which is given as a medicine, especially to children, because it is full of vitamins A and D.
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