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13-letter words containing d, e, u

  • 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
  • close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
  • closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
  • 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
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • cloudlessness — Absence of clouds.
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coalesced sum — (theory)   (Or "smash sum") In domain theory, the coalesced sum of domains A and B, A (+) B, contains all the non-bottom elements of both domains, tagged to show which part of the sum they come from, and a new bottom element. D (+) E = { bottom(D(+)E) } U { (0,d) | d in D, d /= bottom(D) } U { (1,e) | e in E, e /= bottom(E) } The bottoms of the constituent domains are coalesced into a single bottom in the sum. This may be generalised to any number of domains. The ordering is bottom(D(+)E) <= v For all v in D(+)E (i,v1) <= (j,v2) iff i = j & v1 <= v2 "<=" is usually written as LaTeX \sqsubseteq and "(+)" as LaTeX \oplus - a "+" in a circle.
  • cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
  • coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
  • coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
  • cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
  • cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
  • college-bound — intending to go to college
  • commaundement — Obsolete spelling of commandment.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commented out — comment out
  • compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
  • compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
  • compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
  • compound time — compound meter
  • compound tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of several sinusoidal waveforms superimposed upon one main one
  • computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
  • computer nerd — someone who is inordinately preoccupied with using computers, at the expense of ordinary social skills
  • conduciveness — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
  • conduct sheet — a form for detailing information about a person's offences and punishments
  • conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
  • confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
  • consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
  • continuedness — the state of being continued
  • coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
  • costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
  • cotes-du-nord — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
  • 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.
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