13-letter words containing d, s, n
- childrenswear — clothing for children
- chiloe island — an island administered by Chile, off the W coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean: timber. Pop: 154 775 (2002, Chiloé province). Area: 8394 sq km (3240 sq miles)
- chlamydomonas — a green, fresh water alga of the class Chlorophyceae that is flagellate and made up of a single cell
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- christiansand — former name of Kristiansand.
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- citizens band — a two-way radio service (Citizens Radio Service) licensed by the FCC to a U.S. citizen for short-distance personal or business communications between fixed or mobile stations. Abbreviation: CB.
- city dionysia — (in ancient Athens) the chief festival in honor of Dionysus, celebrated in early spring and notable for the performance of dithyrambs, tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays.
- 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.
- 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
- close at hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-at-hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- closed season — The closed season is the period of the year when it is prohibited to kill certain types of animal or fish.
- closed stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is positioned closer to the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- 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.
- cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
- cloudlessness — Absence of clouds.
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
- co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
- 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)
- 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.
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- collectedness — The state or quality of being collected.
- colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- commendations — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- committedness — The state or condition of being committed; commitment.
- commoditising — Present participle of commoditise.
- compactedness — the state of being compacted
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- completedness — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- complexedness — complexity
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- conceitedness — having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.
- concertedness — the state of being concerted
- condemnations — Plural form of condemnation.
- condensations — Plural form of condensation.
- condescendent — to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity.
- condescending — If you say that someone is condescending, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they talk or behave in a way which shows that they think they are superior to other people.
- condescension — Condescension is condescending behaviour.