11-letter words containing n, o, a, d
- contradicts — Deny the truth of (a statement), esp. by asserting the opposite.
- contravened — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- contredanse — a courtly Continental version of the English country dance, similar to the quadrille
- convalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of convalesce.
- conversated — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- conveyanced — Simple past tense and past participle of conveyance.
- cooch dance — a sinuous, quasi-Oriental dance performed by a woman and characterized chiefly by suggestive gyrating and shaking of the body.
- coon rapids — a city in E Minnesota.
- coordinance — a joint ordinance
- coordinated — well organized
- coordinates — clothes of matching or harmonious colours and design, suitable for wearing together
- coordinator — a person or thing that coordinates.
- cordialness — The state or quality of being cordial.
- cordilleran — a mountain system in W South America: the Andes and its component ranges.
- cordwainery — Shoemaking.
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
- countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
- counterraid — a retaliatory raid on an enemy
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- crocodilian — any large predatory reptile of the order Crocodilia, which includes the crocodiles, alligators, and caymans. They live in or near water and have a long broad snout, powerful jaws, a four-chambered heart, and socketed teeth
- cross-nodal — having to do with interaction between the senses
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- cyanidation — (metallurgy) The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process.
- cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
- cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
- dactylonomy — The use of one's fingers to express numbers.
- daemonology — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
- daffynition — A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
- daily dozen — gymnastic setting-up exercises (originally twelve) done daily
- daimyo bond — a bearer bond issued in Japan and the eurobond market by the World Bank
- dalton plan — a system devised to encourage pupils to learn and develop at their own speed, using libraries and other sources to complete long assignments
- damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- dance floor — In a restaurant or night club, the dance floor is the area where people can dance.
- danger zone — a dangerous area
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- danish loaf — a large white loaf with a centre split having the top crust dusted with flour, esp one baked on the sole of the oven
- dap fortran — ["Efficient High Speed Computing with the Distributed Array Processor", P.M. Flanders et al, pp.113-127 (1977)].
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- dawn patrol — a flight, especially during the early days of military aviation, undertaken at dawn or early morning in order to reconnoiter enemy positions.
- deaccession — to sell (a work of art) from a museum's or gallery's collections, especially with a view to acquiring funds for the purchase of other works.