12-letter words containing e, n, c, o, d
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- credit union — A credit union is a financial institution that offers its members low-interest loans.
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- crossed line — interference on a telephone line that causes more than two callers to be connected
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crowned head — a monarch
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyclodextrin — any of a group of cyclic oligosaccharides found in starch digests of certain bacteria
- dance on air — to move one's feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, especially to the accompaniment of music.
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- de-accession — to remove (an item) from a museum or library collection preparatory to selling it
- deactivation — The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb.
- dead account — an account that is no longer being used and on which no transactions have taken place for a considerable length of time
- deallocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- death notice — a public announcement, e.g. in a newspaper, that someone has died
- decalcomania — the art or process of transferring a design from prepared paper onto another surface, such as china, glass, or paper
- decalcomanie — (dated) decalcomania.
- decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
- decarbonated — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.
- decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
- deceleration — to decrease the velocity of: He decelerates the bobsled when he nears a curve.
- decentration — The removal of something from a centre.
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- declamations — Plural form of declamation.
- declarations — Plural form of declaration.
- declensional — of declension
- declinations — Plural form of declination.
- declinometer — an instrument for measuring magnetic declination
- decocainized — From which all cocaine has been removed.
- decolonizing — Present participle of decolonize.
- decoloration — appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds.
- decommission — When something such as a nuclear reactor or a large machine is decommissioned, it is taken to pieces because it is no longer going to be used.
- decommunized — Simple past tense and past participle of decommunize.
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- decompounded — Simple past tense and past participle of decompound.
- deconflicted — Simple past tense and past participle of deconflict.
- decongestant — A decongestant is a medicine which helps someone who has a cold to breathe more easily.
- decongesting — Present participle of decongest.
- decongestion — the act of decongesting
- decongestive — having the ability to ease crowding or clogging in busy locations
- deconsecrate — to transfer (a church) to secular use
- deconstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconstruct.