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13-letter words containing p, d, c

  • capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
  • capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
  • caprylic acid — a fatty acid, (CH3)(CH2)6COOH, with a rancid taste: used in the synthesis of dyes, drugs, perfumes, etc.
  • capsaicinoids — Plural form of capsaicinoid.
  • captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
  • card walloper — (jargon)   An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
  • cardiographic — (physiology) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • carrot-topped — having red hair
  • cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
  • cash-strapped — If a person or organization is cash-strapped, they do not have enough money to buy or pay for the things they want or need.
  • cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • cathodography — the process or practice of taking photographs using cathode rays
  • center spread — the pair of pages facing each other at the center of a magazine or newspaper, printed and made up as a single unit.
  • centre spread — the pair of two facing pages in the middle of a magazine, newspaper, etc, often illustrated
  • cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
  • cheese spread — a processed cheese of smooth and spreadable consistency.
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • child prodigy — A child prodigy is a child with a very great talent.
  • child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
  • chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
  • chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
  • chopped liver — cooked liver chopped with onions and hard-boiled eggs and seasoned.
  • chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
  • choreographed — You describe an activity involving several people as choreographed when it is arranged but is intended to appear natural.
  • church parade — a parade by servicemen or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services
  • clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • clinopinacoid — (in monoclinic crystals) the plane that is parallel to both the vertical and the inclined lateral axes
  • close-cropped — Close-cropped hair or grass is cut very short.
  • cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
  • co-dependence — joint dependence between two or more beings
  • co-dependency — a state of mutual dependence between two people, esp when one partner relies emotionally on supporting and caring for the other partner
  • co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • co-production — a film, play, television programme, etc, produced by two or more people or organizations
  • co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
  • coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
  • code napoleon — the civil code of France, promulgated between 1804 and 1810, comprising the main body of French civil law
  • code position — (character)   An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
  • coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
  • command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • compactedness — the state of being compacted
  • companionhood — companionship
  • company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
  • compartmented — Divided into compartments.
  • compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
  • compiled html — (filename extension)   A Microsoft file format for distributing a collection of HTML files, along with their associated images, sounds, etc., as a single compressed archive file. Microsoft use this format for Windows HTML Help files. Most chms include a project (.hhp) file listing the included files and basic settings, a contents (.hhc) file, an index (.hhk) file, html files, and, optionally, image files. Users view chms with hh.exe, the HTML Help viewer installed with Internet Explorer. Filename extension: .chm.
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