11-letter words containing l, e, d, o
- closed door — held in strict privacy; not open to the press or the public: a closed-door strategy meeting of banking executives.
- closed game — a relatively complex game involving closed ranks and files and permitting only nontactical positional manoeuvring
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- closed rule — a rule that prohibits amendments to a bill from the floor.
- closed shop — If a factory, shop, or other business is a closed shop, the employees must be members of a particular trade union.
- closed term — (theory) A term with no free variables.
- closed-door — private; barred to members of the public
- closed-loop — of or relating to a processing system in which effluents are recycled, that is, treated and returned for reuse.
- closefisted — stingy
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- cloth-eared — deaf
- cloud cover — the state of the sky when it is covered with cloud
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- cloudlessly — Without clouds.
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
- code letter — a letter which is part of a code
- 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.
- codeveloper — a fellow developer
- colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
- cold cellar — root cellar.
- cold chisel — a toughened steel chisel
- cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
- cold-chisel — to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.
- cold-rolled — (of metal sheets, etc) having been rolled without heating, producing a smooth surface finish
- cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
- coldblooded — having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
- coldhearted — lacking sympathy; unfeeling
- collectedly — In a collected manner; calmly.
- color index — the difference between the apparent photographic magnitude and the apparent visual magnitude of a star.
- color model — colour model
- color-coded — Things that are color-coded use colors to represent different features or functions.
- color-field — designating or of a style of abstract painting in which colors are applied to a canvas, often in large patches, with little variation in tone and little emphasis on form
- color-slide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- coloradoite — a mineral, mercury telluride, HgTe, occurring in the form of grayish-black masses.
- colour code — a system of easily distinguishable colours, as for the identification of electrical wires or resistors
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
- columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
- comedically — from a comedic point of view or in a comedic manner
- comedy club — a club where stand-up comedians perform
- commandable — able to be commanded
- commendable — If you describe someone's behaviour as commendable, you approve of it or are praising it.
- commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
- committedly — In a committed manner; with commitment.
- compactedly — in a compacted manner
- complicated — If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with.
- conan doyle — Sir Arthur. 1859–1930, British author of detective stories and historical romances and the creator of Sherlock Holmes