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13-letter words containing l, i, d, c

  • call it a day — If you call it a day, you decide to stop what you are doing because you are tired of it or because it is not successful.
  • called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
  • camera lucida — an instrument attached to a microscope, etc to enable an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface to facilitate the sketching of the image
  • canal du midi — a canal in S France, extending from the River Garonne at Toulouse to the Mediterranean at Sète and providing a link between the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts: built between 1666 and 1681. Length: 181 km (150 miles)
  • canaliculated — Canaliculate.
  • candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
  • candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
  • candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
  • capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
  • caprylic acid — a fatty acid, (CH3)(CH2)6COOH, with a rancid taste: used in the synthesis of dyes, drugs, perfumes, etc.
  • carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
  • carbolic acid — Carbolic acid or carbolic is a liquid that is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic.
  • carbolic-acid — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • cardiac cycle — one complete heartbeat, consisting of one contraction and relaxation of the heart.
  • cardinal fish — a small brightly coloured fish found in shallow tropical seas, of the family Apogonidae, the male of which often broods eggs in its mouth
  • cardinal sign — any of the four astrological signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, that begin at the equinoxes and solstices, thus marking the beginning of the seasons: characterized by the attribute of strong initiative.
  • cardinalitial — relating to a cardinal or cardinalship
  • cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
  • cardiological — the study of the heart and its functions in health and disease.
  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
  • cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
  • casual friday — In some companies, employees are allowed to wear clothes that are more informal than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a casual Friday.
  • caxias do sul — a city in S Brazil.
  • cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • cell division — the division of a cell into two new cells during growth or reproduction
  • centerfielder — (baseball) A player in the centerfield position.
  • central india — a former political agency in central India uniting various native states and subordinate agencies: now incorporated into Madhya Pradesh.
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
  • child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
  • child cruelty — cruelty directed against children
  • child custody — custody (def 4).
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • child prodigy — A child prodigy is a child with a very great talent.
  • child rearing — the activity of rearing children
  • child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
  • child version — (system management)   In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
  • child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • child-custody — custody (def 4).
  • childlessness — The state of being childless.
  • childlikeness — the character of being like a child
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