11-letter words containing d, n, o, t
- contradanza — A popular Cuban dance music genre of the 19th century, or a work composed in this genre.
- contradicts — Deny the truth of (a statement), esp. by asserting the opposite.
- contravened — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- contredanse — a courtly Continental version of the English country dance, similar to the quadrille
- contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- control rod — one of a number of rods or tubes containing a neutron absorber, such as boron, that can be inserted into or retracted from the core of a nuclear reactor in order to control its rate of reaction
- conversated — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- coordinated — well organized
- coordinates — clothes of matching or harmonious colours and design, suitable for wearing together
- coordinator — a person or thing that coordinates.
- copyediting — Alternative spelling of copy editing.
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- cottonseeds — Plural form of cottonseed.
- cottonwoods — Plural form of cottonwood.
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
- counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
- counterdrug — Against the trafficking of drugs.
- countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
- counterraid — a retaliatory raid on an enemy
- countersued — Simple past tense and past participle of countersue.
- counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
- countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
- countryfied — countrified
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- credit note — A credit note is a piece of paper that a shop gives you when you return goods that you have bought from it. It states that you are entitled to take goods of the same value without paying for them.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- cyanidation — (metallurgy) The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process.
- cyprinodont — any small tropical or subtropical soft-finned fish of the mostly marine family Cyprinodontidae, resembling carp but having toothed jaws. The group includes the guppy, killifish, swordtail, and topminnow
- cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
- dactylonomy — The use of one's fingers to express numbers.
- daffynition — A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
- dalton plan — a system devised to encourage pupils to learn and develop at their own speed, using libraries and other sources to complete long assignments
- dap fortran — ["Efficient High Speed Computing with the Distributed Array Processor", P.M. Flanders et al, pp.113-127 (1977)].
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
- dawn patrol — a flight, especially during the early days of military aviation, undertaken at dawn or early morning in order to reconnoiter enemy positions.
- deacon seat — a bench running most of the length of a bunkhouse in a lumbering camp.
- deamidation — (biochemistry) The conversion of glutamine, asparagine, glutamine residues in a polypeptide to glutamic acid or aspartic acid by treatment with strong acid, transamidase or deamidase.
- deamination — to remove the amino group from (a compound).
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- decantation — the act of decanting a liquid
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)