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

  • cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
  • correspondent — A correspondent is a newspaper or television journalist, especially one who specializes in a particular type of news.
  • 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
  • cote d'ivoire — a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: Portuguese trading for ivory and slaves began in the 16th century; made a French protectorate in 1842 and became independent in 1960; major producer of coffee and cocoa. Official language: French. Religion: Muslim majority, with animist, atheist, and Roman Catholic minorities. Currency: franc. Capital: Yamoussoukro (administrative); Abidjan (legislative). Pop: 22 400 835 (2013 est). Area: 319 820 sq km (123 483 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • counter-order — an order which revokes a previous order
  • counter-trend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
  • counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
  • counterdemand — a demand made in response to another demand
  • counterfeited — Simple past tense and past participle of counterfeit.
  • countermanded — Simple past tense and past participle of countermand.
  • countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
  • counterorders — Plural form of counterorder.
  • counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
  • countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
  • countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
  • country dance — a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line
  • country-dance — a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.
  • courtesy card — a privilege card
  • covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
  • cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
  • cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
  • cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
  • credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
  • credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
  • credentialled — having credentials
  • credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
  • credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
  • credit bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
  • credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
  • credit rating — Your credit rating is a judgment of how likely you are to pay money back if you borrow it or buy things on credit.
  • creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
  • 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.
  • crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
  • cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
  • culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
  • current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
  • 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.
  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
  • cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • cutter-rigged — fore-and-aft-rigged on one mast in the manner of a cutter.
  • cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
  • daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
  • daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
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