13-letter words containing d, o, r, s, i
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
- cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
- carias andino — Tiburcio [tee-voor-syaw] /tiˈvur syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1968, Honduran lawyer, soldier, and statesman: president 1933–49.
- carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- child process — (operating system) A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- child version — (system management) In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
- chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
- chrisom child — a baptized child that dies in its first month.
- chromhidrosis — the secretion of pigmented sweat.
- clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- 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
- commandership — a person who commands.
- comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.
- confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
- confirmedness — The quality of being confirmed.
- conidiophores — Plural form of conidiophore.
- conquistadors — Plural form of conquistador.
- conservatized — Simple past tense and past participle of conservatize.
- considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideration — Consideration is careful thought about something.
- considerative — considerate
- consideringly — in a considering manner
- consolidators — Plural form of consolidator.
- constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- containerised — Simple past tense and past participle of containerise.
- contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- coordinations — the act or state of coordinating or of being coordinated.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- cordocentesis — the extraction of a sample of blood from the umbilical cord during pregnancy
- coresidential — relating to joint residency
- corresponding — parallel; equivalent
- corrie-fisted — left-handed
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- coversed sine — obsolete function in trigonometry
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece