12-letter words containing l, d, r
- cold working — Cold working is a process in which metal is shaped at a fairly low temperature. This increases the metal's yield strength but makes it less ductile.
- cold-hearted — A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
- cold-pressed — (of an unrefined oil such as olive oil) produced by pressing the parent seed, nut, or grain at the lowest possible temperature without any further pressing
- collaborated — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- colour depth — bits per pixel
- colour guard — a military guard in a parade, ceremony, etc, that carries and escorts the flag or regimental colours
- colour index — the difference between the apparent magnitude of a star measured in one standard waveband and in a longer standard waveband, indicating its colour and temperature
- colour model — (graphics) Any system for representing colours as ordered sets of numbers. The most common colour models are RGB, CMYK, and HSB. There are several others, e.g. CMY, and the "Lab" system(?). See also: Pantone.
- colour slide — a colour transparency
- colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
- colour-coded — Things that are colour-coded use colours to represent different features or functions.
- column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- compressedly — in a compressed manner
- concordantly — agreeing; harmonious.
- conductorial — relating to a conductor
- conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- consolidator — a person or thing that consolidates
- contractedly — in a shortened manner
- control code — (character) A character code for a control character, normally including the values 0..31 or 127, inherited from ASCII, possibly extended to include other characters by the operating system or application program.
- coordinately — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- cordialities — cordial quality or feeling.
- cotyledonary — the primary or rudimentary leaf of the embryo of seed plants.
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- counterworld — an alternative world opposite to the virtual world
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- cradle vault — barrel vault.
- cradleboards — Plural form of cradleboard.
- 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 limit — Your credit limit is the amount of debt that you are allowed, for example, by your credit card company.
- credit sales — sales for which the customer does not need to pay immediately
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- crocodilians — Plural form of crocodilian.
- cross-legged — If someone is sitting cross-legged, they are sitting on the floor with their legs bent so that their knees point outwards.
- crossed line — interference on a telephone line that causes more than two callers to be connected
- crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
- cruelhearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- crystalloids — Plural form of crystalloid.
- culturalized — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- culvertailed — dove-tailed
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- cyclodextrin — any of a group of cyclic oligosaccharides found in starch digests of certain bacteria
- cylinder saw — crown saw.