13-letter words containing d, y, t
- brachydactyly — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
- brand loyalty — the tendency of consumers to continue buying a particular brand instead of trying a different one
- brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
- butyraldehyde — a colourless flammable pungent liquid used in the manufacture of resins. Formula: CH3(CH2)2CHO
- by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
- call it a day — If you call it a day, you decide to stop what you are doing because you are tired of it or because it is not successful.
- candidate key — (database) One of several possible attributes or combinations of attributes which can be used to uniquely identify a body of information (a "record"). The chosen candidate key is called the primary key.
- candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
- candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
- candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- carry the day — to win a contest or competition; succeed
- casualty ward — a ward which temporarily accommodates patients who have been treated in the casualty department and who need to stay in hospital
- cathodography — the process or practice of taking photographs using cathode rays
- child cruelty — cruelty directed against children
- child custody — custody (def 4).
- child-custody — custody (def 4).
- christmas day — Christmas Day is the 25th of December, when Christmas is celebrated.
- circumductory — relating to circumduction
- 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.
- city of david — Jerusalem. II Sam. 5:6–7.
- cladistically — from a cladistic point of view
- 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
- closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
- coldheartedly — Alternative spelling of cold-heartedly.
- complicatedly — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- conditionally — imposing, containing, subject to, or depending on a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or allowed on certain terms: conditional acceptance.
- conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- contradictory — If two or more facts, ideas, or statements are contradictory, they state or imply that opposite things are true.
- countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
- 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.
- courtesy card — a privilege card
- cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
- credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
- creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
- crystalloidal — Relating to a crystalloid.
- current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
- custody suite — the part of a police station where people who have been arrested are held in custody
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- cycloaddition — a type of pericyclic chemical reaction
- cytodiagnosis — the diagnosis of disease through the study of cells in the body
- dactyliomancy — the use of a suspended finger-ring for divination
- dactylography — the scientific study of fingerprints for purposes of identification