11-letter words containing i, l, d
- child-proof — resistant to being opened, tampered with, or operated by a child: a childproof medicine bottle.
- childbirths — Plural form of childbirth.
- childminder — A childminder is someone whose job it is to look after children when the children's parents are away or are at work. Childminders usually work in their own homes.
- chili verde — a stew of beef or pork, or both, flavored with hot green peppers.
- chilled out — relaxed
- chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
- chlorhydric — (chemistry) Alternative form of hydrochloric.
- chlorinated — Chlorinated water, for example drinking water or water in a swimming pool, has been cleaned by adding chlorine to it.
- cholic acid — crystalline acid found in bile
- chrysalidal — relating to a chrysalis or stage in the development of an insect
- chrysalides — the hard-shelled pupa of a moth or butterfly; an obtect pupa.
- chrysomelid — a vibrantly-coloured beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae that eats the leaves of plants
- churn drill — a portable drill rig using a bit fashioned on a massive steel cylinder that is alternately lifted and dropped to drill a hole in earth and rock.
- cider-apple — a variety of apple suitable for use in cider-making
- cinderblock — Made of cinder blocks.
- ciudad real — a market town in S central Spain. Pop: 65 703 (2003 est)
- civil death — (formerly) the loss of all civil rights because of a serious conviction
- cladoptosis — the annual shedding of twigs or branches instead of leaves, as in certain cypresses.
- clamdiggers — Close-fitting women’s casual pants hemmed at mid-calf.
- clandestine — Something that is clandestine is hidden or kept secret, often because it is illegal.
- classic-ada — (language) An object-oriented extension to Ada, said to be like Smalltalk. It is implemented as an Ada preprocessor.
- classicized — Simple past tense and past participle of classicize.
- classifieds — The classifieds are the same as classified ad.
- claudius ii — full name Marcus Aurelius Claudius, called Gothicus. 214–270 ad, Roman emperor (268–270)
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- cleanlimbed — having shapely limbs
- clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
- click fraud — repeated clicking on an online advert for fraudulent purposes, esp to charge the advertiser for fictitious traffic to their website
- clinandrium — a cavity in the upper part of the column of an orchid flower that contains the anthers
- clindamycin — an antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections
- clock radio — a radio combined with an alarm clock in a compact cabinet, the clock serving as a timer to turn the radio on or off at a preset time.
- clock-radio — a device combining the functions of a radio and alarm clock which can be used to play the radio at a set time
- clodhopping — loutish; boorish.
- clopidogrel — An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C16H16ClNO2S.
- closefisted — stingy
- clostridial — any of several rod-shaped, spore-forming, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, found in soil and in the intestinal tract of humans and animals.
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
- code police — (humour) (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
- codicillary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a codicil.
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold fusion — the process of creating nuclear fusion at room temperature in order to create a power source
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- collingwood — a city in SE Australia, near Melbourne.
- colloidally — in the manner of a colloid
- color index — the difference between the apparent photographic magnitude and the apparent visual magnitude of a star.
- color solid — a three-dimensional representation of colors according to the relationship between their hue, value, and saturation.
- color-blind — Someone who is color-blind cannot see the difference between colors, especially between red and green.