12-letter words containing o, d, l, t
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- boletic acid — fumaric acid.
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
- bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
- bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
- bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
- bridge cloth — a tablecloth for a bridge table.
- bridle joint — a heading joint in which the end of one member, notched to form two parallel tenons, is fitted into two gains cut into the edges of a second member.
- bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
- call of duty — responsibilities
- call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- card catalog — a file of cards of uniform size arranged in some definite order and listing the items in the collection of a library or group of libraries, each card typically identifying a single item.
- cardiologist — A cardiologist is a doctor who specializes in the heart and its diseases.
- carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
- catalog code — the principles, rules, and regulations for entering and describing books or other library material in a catalog.
- catch a cold — to make a loss; lose one's investment
- cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- cathodically — in a cathodic manner, by using a cathode
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
- class method — (programming) 1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- closemouthed — not talking much; telling little; taciturn
- closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
- 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.
- cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
- clovenfooted — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- cobblestoned — Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
- 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
- cold cathode — a cathode from which electrons are emitted at ambient temperature, due to a high potential gradient at the surface
- cold comfort — If you say that a slightly encouraging fact or event is cold comfort to someone, you mean that it gives them little or no comfort because their situation is so difficult or unpleasant.
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- cold-hearted — A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
- collaborated — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- collide with — If a vehicle collides with another vehicle or a person, it hits something or someone that is traveling in a different direction.
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- colour depth — bits per pixel
- complemented — having a complement or complements.