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13-letter words containing d, i

  • 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
  • civil defence — Civil defence is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
  • civil defense — Civil defense is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
  • civilizedness — having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc.
  • claddagh ring — any of various elaborately designed rings, esp one in the shape of two hands embracing a heart, given as a token of lasting affection
  • cladistically — from a cladistic point of view
  • 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
  • clandestinely — characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years.
  • clandestinity — secrecy; the quality of being clandestine
  • classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
  • clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
  • cleaning lady — A cleaning lady is a woman who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building.
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • cliff dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
  • cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
  • clinodiagonal — the diagonal axis of a monoclinic crystal
  • clinopinacoid — (in monoclinic crystals) the plane that is parallel to both the vertical and the inclined lateral axes
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
  • cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
  • cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
  • co-ordination — Co-ordination means organizing the activities of two or more groups so that they work together efficiently and know what the others are doing.
  • co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • co-production — a film, play, television programme, etc, produced by two or more people or organizations
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • cocos islands — a group of 27 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Java: a Territory of Australia since 1955. Pop: 596 (2010). Area: 13 sq km (5 sq miles)
  • cod-liver oil — Cod liver oil is a thick yellow oil which is given as a medicine, especially to children, because it is full of vitamins A and D.
  • code position — (character)   An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
  • codeclination — the astronomical coordinate complementary to the declination
  • codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
  • codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
  • coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
  • cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
  • collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
  • collectivized — (of agriculture, farms, factories, etc) organized according to the principles of collectivism
  • college radio — radio broadcasting from stations affiliated with a college or university, often at a frequency below 92 MHz FM.
  • collodionized — Simple past tense and past participle of collodionize.
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