13-letter words containing d, e, n, s
- consolidative — Tending or having power to consolidate.
- constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
- containerised — Simple past tense and past participle of containerise.
- contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contentedness — satisfied; content.
- continuedness — the state of being continued
- cordocentesis — the extraction of a sample of blood from the umbilical cord during pregnancy
- coresidential — relating to joint residency
- corespondents — Plural form of corespondent.
- correspondent — A correspondent is a newspaper or television journalist, especially one who specializes in a particular type of news.
- corresponding — parallel; equivalent
- cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- cotes-du-nord — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- counterorders — Plural form of counterorder.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- coversed sine — obsolete function in trigonometry
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- 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.
- cut and paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
- 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.
- cylinder desk — a desk having a cylinder front, usually a tambour but occasionally of solid wood.
- 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
- dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
- damson cheese — thick damson jam
- dance hostess — a woman who hosts a ball at her house
- dancing shoes — shoes worn by dancers
- danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
- dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
- danse macabre — dance of death
- danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
- das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- dastardliness — The state or quality of being dastardly.
- data transfer — (data) Copying or moving data from one place to another, typically via some kind of network (e.g. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, File Transfer Protocol) or local data connection (bus, SCSI, IDE, SATA).
- dauntlessness — The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
- day blindness — hemeralopia.
- deaccessioned — Simple past tense and past participle of deaccession.
- deathlessness — The state of being deathless; eternity.
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- decahistidine — An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties.
- decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.