13-letter words containing d, e, s, c, r
- correspondent — A correspondent is a newspaper or television journalist, especially one who specializes in a particular type of news.
- corresponding — parallel; equivalent
- corrie-fisted — left-handed
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- côtes-d'armor — a department of W France, on the N coast of Brittany. Capital: St Brieuc. Pop: 553 969 (2003 est). Area: 6878 sq km (2656 sq miles)
- 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.
- courtesy card — a privilege card
- coversed sine — obsolete function in trigonometry
- cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
- credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- crested swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees.
- 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-dresser — to dress in clothing typically worn by members of the opposite sex.
- 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.
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
- custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- 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
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- danse macabre — dance of death
- data security — the protection of data stored on computers
- days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- decentralised — Simple past tense and past participle of decentralise.
- decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
- decision tree — a treelike diagram illustrating the choices available to a decision maker, each possible decision and its estimated outcome being shown as a separate branch of the tree
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
- deconsecrated — (of a church) having been transferred to secular use
- deconsecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconsecrate.
- deconstructed — having no formal structure
- deconstructor — an adherent to the theory of deconstruction
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
- deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
- defervescence — the abatement of a fever
- defervescency — Alternative form of defervescence.