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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.
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