13-letter words containing o, e, d, i
- condescension — Condescension is condescending behaviour.
- conditionable — able to be conditioned
- conduciveness — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
- confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- confederation — A confederation is an organization or group consisting of smaller groups or states, especially one that exists for business or political purposes.
- confederative — of confederates or a confederation
- confidingness — The state or quality of being confiding.
- confirmedness — The quality of being confirmed.
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- conidiophores — Plural form of conidiophore.
- conservatized — Simple past tense and past participle of conservatize.
- considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consideration — Consideration is careful thought about something.
- considerative — considerate
- consideringly — in a considering manner
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- consolidative — Tending or having power to consolidate.
- constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
- containerised — Simple past tense and past participle of containerise.
- containerized — Simple past tense and past participle of containerize.
- contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contemporized — Simple past tense and past participle of contemporize.
- continuedness — the state of being continued
- contradictive — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
- copolymerized — Polymerized, along with another compound, to form a copolymer.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- cordocentesis — the extraction of a sample of blood from the umbilical cord during pregnancy
- 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
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- corresponding — parallel; equivalent
- corrie-fisted — left-handed
- cote d'ivoire — a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: Portuguese trading for ivory and slaves began in the 16th century; made a French protectorate in 1842 and became independent in 1960; major producer of coffee and cocoa. Official language: French. Religion: Muslim majority, with animist, atheist, and Roman Catholic minorities. Currency: franc. Capital: Yamoussoukro (administrative); Abidjan (legislative). Pop: 22 400 835 (2013 est). Area: 319 820 sq km (123 483 sq miles)
- cough and die — (jargon) barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
- coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
- counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
- counterfeited — Simple past tense and past participle of counterfeit.
- counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
- countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
- cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
- coversed sine — obsolete function in trigonometry
- criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification