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12-letter words containing d, u, c

  • cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
  • clutch pedal — The clutch pedal is the pedal by which the driver of a vehicle operates the clutch.
  • coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
  • coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
  • colour depth — bits per pixel
  • colour guard — a military guard in a parade, ceremony, etc, that carries and escorts the flag or regimental colours
  • colour index — the difference between the apparent magnitude of a star measured in one standard waveband and in a longer standard waveband, indicating its colour and temperature
  • colour model — (graphics)   Any system for representing colours as ordered sets of numbers. The most common colour models are RGB, CMYK, and HSB. There are several others, e.g. CMY, and the "Lab" system(?). See also: Pantone.
  • colour slide — a colour transparency
  • colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
  • colour-coded — Things that are colour-coded use colours to represent different features or functions.
  • columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
  • column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
  • columnarized — columnar (def 3).
  • come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
  • comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • commodiously — In a commodious manner.
  • communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
  • compound eye — the convex eye of insects and some crustaceans, consisting of numerous separate light-sensitive units (ommatidia)
  • compound key — (database)   (Or "multi-part key", "concatenated key") A key which consists of more than one attribute of the body of information (e.g. database "record") it identifies.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • compte rendu — a short review or notice, esp of a book
  • computerised — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
  • computerized — A computerized system, process, or business is one in which the work is done by computer.
  • condominiums — Plural form of condominium.
  • conduct mark — (in school) a mark for behaviour
  • conductances — Plural form of conductance.
  • conductively — In a conductive manner.
  • conductivity — the property of transmitting heat, electricity, or sound
  • conductorial — relating to a conductor
  • conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
  • confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
  • configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • confoundedly — bewildered; confused; perplexed.
  • confoundment — The state of being confounded.
  • confusedness — The state or quality of being confused.
  • conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
  • consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
  • consequenced — Simple past tense and past participle of consequence.
  • consumerized — to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption: to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
  • contractured — a shortening or distortion of muscular or connective tissue due to spasm, scar, or paralysis of the antagonist of the contracting muscle.
  • convolutedly — twisted; coiled.
  • coproduction — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
  • coram judice — before a court having the authority to hear and decide (the case in question).
  • correctitude — the quality of correctness, esp conscious correctness in behaviour
  • countenanced — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
  • counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
  • counter word — any word freely used as a general term of approval or disapproval without reference to its more exact meaning, as nice, terrible, lousy, terrific
  • counter-raid — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
  • counter-word — a word, often of short-lived popularity, widely used as an almost meaningless, automatic response.
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