12-letter words containing d, o, i, t
- boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- body politic — The body politic is all the people of a nation when they are considered as a complete political group.
- boil down to — If you say that a situation or problem boils down to a particular thing or can be boiled down to a particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it.
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- boletic acid — fumaric acid.
- bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
- call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
- cardan joint — type of universal joint
- cardioactive — of or relating to a drug or other substance affecting the function of the heart.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- carotid body — a small mass of cells and nerve endings adjacent to the carotid sinus that, in response to chemical changes in the blood, adjusts the respiratory rate.
- catadioptric — involving a combination of reflecting and refracting components
- cathiodermie — a beauty treatment for the skin, which involves using electrotherapy
- cathodically — in a cathodic manner, by using a cathode
- caustic soda — Caustic soda is a powerful chemical substance used to make strong soaps and clean drains.
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- cerotic acid — white insoluble odourless wax
- chondrostian — relating to the class Chondrostei of fish with fin rays
- choroid coat — a pigmented, highly vascular membrane of the eye that is continuous with the iris and lies between the sclera and the retina, functioning to nourish the retina and absorb scattered light.
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- city edition — an early edition of a daily newspaper on sale locally, usually a later edition than the one sent for out-of-town distribution.
- cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
- claudication — limping; lameness
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
- clotheslined — Simple past tense and past participle of clothesline.
- co-ordinator — a person or thing that coordinates.
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- coadaptation — the state of two or more things adapting to one another
- coccidiostat — a drug used to treat coccidiosis
- codification — the systematic organization of methods, rules, etc
- coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
- codling moth — a tortricid moth, Carpocapsa pomonella, the larvae of which are a pest of apples
- coincidental — Something that is coincidental is the result of a coincidence and has not been deliberately arranged.
- coincidently — in a coincident manner
- collide with — If a vehicle collides with another vehicle or a person, it hits something or someone that is traveling in a different direction.
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- come to mind — be recalled
- commendation — the act or an instance of commending; praise
- commiserated — Simple past tense and past participle of commiserate.
- commoditised — Simple past tense and past participle of commoditise.