12-letter words containing n, a, d
- chiliahedron — a thousand-sided polyhedron
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
- chip and dip — a bowl or plate for holding potato chips or crackers with a smaller bowl, often placed in the center, for holding dip: usually sold as a set.
- chip and pin — Chip and PIN is a method of paying for goods you have bought by using both a bank card and a PIN number.
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- chondrostian — relating to the class Chondrostei of fish with fin rays
- chord change — a movement from one chord to another
- churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- cinder track — a racetrack covered with fine cinders
- civilianized — Simple past tense and past participle of civilianize.
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- classloading — (computing, Java) The dynamic loading of classes into a virtual machine, as performed by a classloader.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
- clean-handed — free from wrongdoing; guiltless.
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- closed chain — any structural arrangement, used in the models and formulas of molecules, consisting of a chain of atoms that forms a closed geometric figure; ring
- closegrained — having a fine, compact grain or texture
- closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- co-ordinator — a person or thing that coordinates.
- coadaptation — the state of two or more things adapting to one another
- code-sharing — a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows passengers to use a ticket from one airline to travel on another
- codefendants — Plural form of codefendant.
- codification — the systematic organization of methods, rules, etc
- coincidental — Something that is coincidental is the result of a coincidence and has not been deliberately arranged.
- colonialised — to make colonial.
- colonialized — to make colonial.
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- come to hand — to become available; be received
- comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- command line — typed instructions that access a computer system
- command post — A command post is a place from which a commander in the army controls and organizes his forces.
- commandeered — Simple past tense and past participle of commandeer.
- commanderies — the office or rank of a commander.
- commandingly — being in command: a commanding officer.
- commandments — a command or mandate.
- commendation — the act or an instance of commending; praise
- commendatory — serving to commend; expressing praise or approval
- communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- compassioned — a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- concamerated — Simple past tense and past participle of concamerate.