13-letter words containing d, u, n, l
- 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
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
- coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
- cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
- college-bound — intending to go to college
- 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.
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- confoundingly — in a confounding manner
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
- cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
- countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
- cutting fluid — a liquid or gas for cooling or lubricating a cutting tool and a piece of work at their point of contact.
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
- danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
- dauntlessness — The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
- deconvolution — A process of resolving something into its constituent elements or removing complication in order to clarify it.
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- deducibleness — The quality of being deducible.
- deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- deglutination — to extract the gluten from.
- degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
- delian league — an alliance of ancient Greek states formed in 478–77 bc to fight Persia
- deliciousness — highly pleasing to the senses, especially to taste or smell: a delicious dinner; a delicious aroma.
- delinquencies — Plural form of delinquency.
- deliquescence — the process of deliquescing
- deliriousness — The characteristic of being delirious.
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- denaturalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturalize.
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- dental plaque — a filmy deposit on the surface of a tooth consisting of a mixture of mucus, bacteria, food, etc