13-letter words containing o, d, u, r
- counter-trend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
- counterdemand — a demand made in response to another demand
- counterfeited — Simple past tense and past participle of counterfeit.
- countermanded — Simple past tense and past participle of countermand.
- countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
- counterorders — Plural form of counterorder.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- country dance — a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line
- country-dance — a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.
- coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
- courtesy card — a privilege card
- cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
- credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- cross product — a vector perpendicular to two given vectors, u and v, and having magnitude equal to the product of the magnitudes of the two given vectors multiplied by the sine of the angle between the two given vectors, usually represented by u × v.
- crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
- crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
- crowdsourcing — Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas or help on a project from a large number of people, usually through the Internet.
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- currency bond — a bond payable in legal tender.
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
- cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
- cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- cycle drought — A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around. "The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory. There will be a cycle drought until it's fixed."
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
- daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
- daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
- dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
- dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
- daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
- death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
- deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
- deconstructed — having no formal structure
- deconstructor — an adherent to the theory of deconstruction
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- deed of trust — a written instrument legally conveying property to a trustee, such as a bank, often for the purpose of securing a mortgage or promissory note.
- deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
- deer's-tongue — green gentian.
- default route — (networking) A routing table entry which is used to direct packets addressed to hosts or networks not explicitly listed in the routing table.
- degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
- degree course — an education course that awards degrees to those who complete it successfully
- deleteriously — In a deleterious manner; harmfully.