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

  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
  • cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • cocos islands — a group of 27 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Java: a Territory of Australia since 1955. Pop: 596 (2010). Area: 13 sq km (5 sq miles)
  • codeclination — the astronomical coordinate complementary to the declination
  • coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
  • cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
  • collodionized — Simple past tense and past participle of collodionize.
  • compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
  • comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
  • conditionable — able to be conditioned
  • conditionally — imposing, containing, subject to, or depending on a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or allowed on certain terms: conditional acceptance.
  • confoundingly — in a confounding manner
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
  • considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
  • consideringly — in a considering manner
  • consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
  • consolidating — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • consolidation — the act of consolidating or state of being consolidated
  • consolidative — Tending or having power to consolidate.
  • consolidators — Plural form of consolidator.
  • constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
  • consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
  • convalidation — In Roman Catholic canon law, the making of a putative marriage valid following the removal of some impediment.
  • cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
  • core handling — Core handling is the way that a core is dealt with to make sure it maintains its properties for testing.
  • coresidential — relating to joint residency
  • corn marigold — an annual plant, Chrysanthemum segetum, with yellow daisy-like flower heads: a common weed of cultivated land: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
  • countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
  • cranial index — the ratio of the greatest length to the greatest width of the cranium, multiplied by 100: used in comparative anthropology
  • crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • credentialing — Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form: Only those with the proper credentials are admitted.
  • credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
  • credentialled — having credentials
  • criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
  • crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
  • crown molding — decorative ceiling trim
  • culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.
  • current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
  • cutting fluid — a liquid or gas for cooling or lubricating a cutting tool and a piece of work at their point of contact.
  • cycloaddition — a type of pericyclic chemical reaction
  • cylinder desk — a desk having a cylinder front, usually a tambour but occasionally of solid wood.
  • cylinder head — the detachable metal casting that fits onto the top of a cylinder block. In an engine it contains part of the combustion chamber and in an overhead-valve four-stroke engine it houses the valves and their operating mechanisms
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