11-letter words containing d, e, l, o, s
- closed rule — a rule that prohibits amendments to a bill from the floor.
- closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
- closed term — (theory) A term with no free variables.
- closed-door — private; barred to members of the public
- closed-loop — of or relating to a processing system in which effluents are recycled, that is, treated and returned for reuse.
- closefisted — stingy
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- cloudlessly — Without clouds.
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- color-slide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- condensable — capable of being condensed.
- condensible — capable of being condensed.
- condisciple — a fellow disciple or a fellow student
- condolences — an expression of sympathy to a person who has been bereaved
- confessedly — by admission or confession; avowedly
- consolidate — If you consolidate something that you have, for example power or success, you strengthen it so that it becomes more effective or secure.
- convalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of convalesce.
- copyholders — Plural form of copyholder.
- cordialness — The state or quality of being cordial.
- cordilleras — mountain system of W North America, including all mountains between the E Rockies & the Pacific coast
- cost ledger — a subsidiary ledger in which are recorded the costs of goods produced or services supplied.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- cross-slide — the part of a lathe or planing machine on which the tool post is mounted and across which it slides at right angles to the bed of the lathe
- crosslegged — Alternative spelling of cross-legged.
- culdoscopes — Plural form of culdoscope.
- cyclostyled — Simple past tense and past participle of cyclostyle.
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- deallocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deallocate.
- deciduously — shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs.
- declarators — Plural form of declarator.
- declensions — Plural form of declension.
- declivitous — fairly steep
- decolonised — Simple past tense and past participle of decolonise.
- decolonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decolonize.
- decolorants — Plural form of decolorant.
- decompilers — Plural form of decompiler.
- deflections — Plural form of deflection.
- deisolation — to remove from isolation.
- delegations — Plural form of delegation.
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- deletionist — (classical studies) Favoring the deletion of a given passage or work as spurious.