13-letter words containing h, u, d
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
- cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
- cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
- conduct sheet — a form for detailing information about a person's offences and punishments
- conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.
- cough and die — (jargon) barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
- could do with — If you say that you could do with something, you mean that you need it or would benefit from it.
- credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
- cruel-hearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- 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."
- daughter cell — either of the two cells that result from the division of a cell, as in mitosis
- daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
- death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
- death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
- dehumidifiers — Plural form of dehumidifier.
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dhu el-hijjah — Islam. the twelfth month of the Muslim calendar, in leap year containing one extra day.
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dien bien phu — a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.
- dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- disharmonious — inharmonious; discordant.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- distinguished — made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous: a distinguished scholar. Synonyms: renowned, illustrious.
- distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- distinguishes — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- doughnut hole — a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
- down the tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.