13-letter words containing n, i, d, l
- building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
- bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- caiman lizard — a crocodilelike lizard, Dracaena guianensis, of South America, having powerful jaws for crushing the snails and mussels upon which it feeds.
- 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
- 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
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
- child rearing — the activity of rearing children
- child version — (system management) In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
- child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
- childlessness — The state of being childless.
- childlikeness — the character of being like a child
- childrenswear — clothing for children
- 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)
- chlorhexidine — an antiseptic compound used in skin cleansers, mouthwashes, etc
- chlormerodrin — a white, bitter, odorless powder, ClHgN 2 H 11 O 2 , soluble in methanol and ethanol and slightly soluble in water, used in medicine as a diuretic.
- chronologized — to arrange in chronological order.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- civil defence — Civil defence is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
- civil defense — Civil defense is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
- civilizedness — having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc.
- claddagh ring — any of various elaborately designed rings, esp one in the shape of two hands embracing a heart, given as a token of lasting affection
- clair de lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
- clair-de-lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
- clairaudience — the postulated ability to hear sounds beyond the range of normal hearing
- clandestinely — characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years.
- clandestinity — secrecy; the quality of being clandestine
- cleaning lady — A cleaning lady is a woman who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building.
- clinodiagonal — the diagonal axis of a monoclinic crystal
- clinopinacoid — (in monoclinic crystals) the plane that is parallel to both the vertical and the inclined lateral axes