12-letter words containing i, n, d, r
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
- counter-raid — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- countermined — Simple past tense and past participle of countermine.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- crane driver — a person who drives a crane
- craniocaudal — (anatomy) From the cranial to the caudal end of a structure.
- credentialed — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
- credibleness — The state or quality of being credible.
- credit entry — an accounting entry showing income or capital assets
- 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.
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross-dating — a method of dating objects, remains, etc, by comparison and correlation with other sites and levels
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossed line — interference on a telephone line that causes more than two callers to be connected
- crossgrained — Alternative form of cross-grained.
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- cyanohydrins — Plural form of cyanohydrin.
- cyberfriends — Plural form of cyberfriend.
- cyclodextrin — any of a group of cyclic oligosaccharides found in starch digests of certain bacteria
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- cylindricity — the state or quality of being cylindrical
- cylindriform — having the form or shape of a cylinder
- cyprinodonts — Plural form of cyprinodont.
- dail eireann — (in the Republic of Ireland) the lower chamber of parliament
- dance on air — to move one's feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, especially to the accompaniment of music.
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- dancing girl — a professional female dancer who dances to entertain customers at a club, theatre, etc
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- danube river — a river in central and SE Europe, flowing E from southern Germany to the Black Sea. 1725 miles (2775 km) long.
- daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- dark-skinned — (of a person or race) having skin of a dark colour
- darning wool — wool used for darning
- darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
- dastardizing — Present participle of dastardize.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- david turner — (person) Professor David A Turner. One of the pioneers of functional languages. He designed several languages, including, SASL (1976), KRC (1981), and Miranda, many of which were implemented using combinators and the S-K reduction machine which he defined. He coined the name "ZF expression" for the list comprehension. He worked at UKC and set up a company, Research Software Limited to market Miranda.
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- day-tripping — to travel as a day-tripper.
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- de-integrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.