13-letter words containing n, a, c, o, d
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.
- backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
- badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
- bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
- bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
- barnacle code — (programming, humour) Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
- biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- black diamond — coal (sense 1)
- boarding card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- boron carbide — a black extremely hard inert substance having a high capture cross section for thermal neutrons. It is used as an abrasive, refractory, and in control rods in nuclear reactors. Formula: B4C
- bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- boundary scan — The use of scan registers to capture state from device input and output pins. IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990 describes the international standard implementation (sometimes called JTAG after the Joint Test Action Group which began the standardisation work).
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- butanoic acid — kind of acid
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- cannon fodder — If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
- cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white 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
- capsaicinoids — Plural form of capsaicinoid.
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- carbonic acid — a weak acid formed when carbon dioxide combines with water: obtained only in aqueous solutions, never in the pure state. Formula: H2CO3
- 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.
- cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
- carias andino — Tiburcio [tee-voor-syaw] /tiˈvur syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1968, Honduran lawyer, soldier, and statesman: president 1933–49.
- carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
- cased edition — a hardback book sold in a protective box that is open at one edge so that you can see the spine of the book
- casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
- cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
- cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- chandernagore — a port in E India, in S West Bengal on the Hooghly River: a former French settlement (1686–1950). Pop: 162 166 (2001)
- chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
- chiloe island — an island administered by Chile, off the W coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean: timber. Pop: 154 775 (2002, Chiloé province). Area: 8394 sq km (3240 sq miles)
- chlamydomonas — a green, fresh water alga of the class Chlorophyceae that is flagellate and made up of a single cell
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- chun doo hwan — born 1931, South Korean political leader: president 1980–88.
- cinco de mayo — May 5, anniversary of the victory of Mexico over French forces at Puebla in 1862: observed by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans