12-letter words containing n, d, t
- cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- cat standard — (in Britain) a standard accepted voluntarily by building societies relating to charges, access, etc, against which Individual Savings Accounts can be judged
- center field — the middle area of the outfield
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- centeredness — The state of being centered.
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
- chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- chondrostian — relating to the class Chondrostei of fish with fin rays
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- 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
- circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- city edition — an early edition of a daily newspaper on sale locally, usually a later edition than the one sent for out-of-town distribution.
- 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.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
- clotheslined — Simple past tense and past participle of clothesline.
- clovenfooted — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- co-dependent — A co-dependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
- co-ordinator — a person or thing that coordinates.
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- coadaptation — the state of two or more things adapting to one another
- cobblestoned — Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
- code segment — (memory) (Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the machine code instructions of a program. The code segment of a program may be shared between multiple processes running that code so long as none of them tries to modify it. Initialised data is located in the data segment.
- codefendants — Plural form of codefendant.
- codification — the systematic organization of methods, rules, etc
- coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
- codling moth — a tortricid moth, Carpocapsa pomonella, the larvae of which are a pest of apples
- coincidental — Something that is coincidental is the result of a coincidence and has not been deliberately arranged.
- coincidently — in a coincident manner
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- come down to — If a problem, decision, or question comes down to a particular thing, that thing is the most important factor involved.
- come to hand — to become available; be received
- come to mind — be recalled
- command post — A command post is a place from which a commander in the army controls and organizes his forces.
- 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.
- complemented — having a complement or complements.
- complimented — Simple past tense and past participle of compliment.
- compte rendu — a short review or notice, esp of a book
- concamerated — Simple past tense and past participle of concamerate.
- concatenated — Simple past tense and past participle of concatenate.