11-letter words containing o, d, e
- cradleboard — a wooden frame worn on the back, used by North American Indian women for carrying an infant.
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- credit memo — A credit memo is an official written acknowledgement that money is owed back to a customer.
- credit note — A credit note is a piece of paper that a shop gives you when you return goods that you have bought from it. It states that you are entitled to take goods of the same value without paying for them.
- credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
- crescendoed — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crescendoes — Plural form of crescendo.
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- crocidolite — a blue fibrous amphibole mineral consisting of sodium iron silicate: a variety of asbestos used in cement products and pressure piping
- crookbacked — Hunchbacked.
- crookedness — The state of being crooked.
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cross-breed — If one species of animal or plant cross-breeds with another, they reproduce, and new or different animals or plants are produced. You can also say that someone cross-breeds something such as an animal or plant.
- cross-dress — If someone cross-dresses, they wear the clothes of the opposite sex, especially for sexual pleasure.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cross-index — a note or notes referring the reader to other material
- cross-slide — the part of a lathe or planing machine on which the tool post is mounted and across which it slides at right angles to the bed of the lathe
- cross-trade — cross (def 26).
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- crossbedded — having layers of rock oblique or transverse to the main beds of stratified rock
- crossbreeds — Plural form of crossbreed.
- crossfaders — Plural form of crossfader.
- crosslegged — Alternative spelling of cross-legged.
- crossruffed — Simple past tense and past participle of crossruff.
- crowd scene — (in a film, play, or television programme) a scene in which a crowd appears
- crowded out — full to capacity; full to bursting
- crowdedness — The state or quality of being crowded.
- crowder pea — any variety of cowpea bearing pods with closely spaced seeds.
- crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
- crowdsource — to outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet
- crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
- crowstepped — (of a gable) having crow steps
- cryogenized — treated with or stored in a cryogen.
- cryohydrate — a crystalline substance containing water and a salt in definite proportions at low temperatures: a eutectic crystallizing below the freezing point of water
- culdoscopes — Plural form of culdoscope.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- cycadaceous — belonging or pertaining to the order Cycadales.
- cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
- cyclopaedia — (archaic) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.
- cyclostyled — Simple past tense and past participle of cyclostyle.
- cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
- dacryorrhea — excessive flow of tears.
- daemonology — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
- daggerboard — a light bladelike board inserted into the water through a slot in the keel of a boat to reduce keeling and leeway
- daily dozen — gymnastic setting-up exercises (originally twelve) done daily
- damask rose — a rose, Rosa damascena, native to Asia and cultivated for its pink or red fragrant flowers, which are used to make the perfume attar
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write