13-letter words containing d, r, u
- common ground — If two people or groups find common ground, they agree about something, especially when they do not agree about other things.
- 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
- conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
- conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.
- congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- conquistadors — Plural form of conquistador.
- corduroy road — a road across swampy ground, made of logs laid transversely
- 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.
- count rumford — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
- count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
- 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.
- countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
- counterorders — Plural form of counterorder.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- country dance — a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line
- country-dance — a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.
- coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
- courtesy card — a privilege card
- cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
- credit bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
- credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
- credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- cross product — a vector perpendicular to two given vectors, u and v, and having magnitude equal to the product of the magnitudes of the two given vectors multiplied by the sine of the angle between the two given vectors, usually represented by u × v.
- crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
- crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
- crowdsourcing — Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas or help on a project from a large number of people, usually through the Internet.
- cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
- cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- currency bond — a bond payable in legal tender.
- current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
- custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
- cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
- cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
- cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.