12-letter words containing o, l, d, h
- cigar holder — a mouthpiece of wood, ivory, etc, used for holding a cigar while it is smoked
- clam chowder — chowder containing clams
- clap hold of — to grasp suddenly or forcibly
- 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.
- cloddishness — The quality of being cloddish.
- close-hauled — with the sails flat, so as to sail as close to the wind as possible
- closed chain — any structural arrangement, used in the models and formulas of molecules, consisting of a chain of atoms that forms a closed geometric figure; ring
- closed shell — (in atomic structure) a shell that contains the maximum number of electrons permitted by the exclusion principle.
- closemouthed — not talking much; telling little; taciturn
- clotheslined — Simple past tense and past participle of clothesline.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- codling moth — a tortricid moth, Carpocapsa pomonella, the larvae of which are a pest of apples
- cold cathode — a cathode from which electrons are emitted at ambient temperature, due to a high potential gradient at the surface
- cold-hearted — A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
- collide with — If a vehicle collides with another vehicle or a person, it hits something or someone that is traveling in a different direction.
- colour depth — bits per pixel
- conchoidally — In a conchoidal manner.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- dealcoholize — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diarthrodial — a form of articulation that permits maximal motion, as the knee joint.
- dichotically — in a dichotic manner
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- disco lights — coloured lights that flash on and off in time to the music at a disco etc
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- do the lolly — to lose one's temper
- dodecahedral — Having twelve plane surfaces.
- doll's house — a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
- dolphin kick — (in the butterfly stroke) a kick in which the legs move up and down together, with the knees bent on the upswing.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- donald knuth — (person) Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
- double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
- double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
- double helix — the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- douglas hurd — a third-class university degree