10-letter words containing r, e, d, c
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- coproduced — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
- coproducer — a joint producer
- copyeditor — a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, especially to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar.
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- coradicate — (of multiple words) derived from the same root
- cordectomy — the removal of a cord, esp a vocal cord
- cordeliers — a Franciscan friar: so called from the knotted cord worn as a girdle.
- cordialize — to become warm and friendly
- cordierite — a grey or violet-blue dichroic mineral that consists of magnesium aluminium iron silicate in orthorhombic crystalline form and is found in metamorphic rocks. Formula: (Mg,Fe)2AL4Si5O18.nH2O
- cordillera — a series of parallel ranges of mountains, esp in the northwestern US
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- coresident — one of two or more computer programs stored in a computer memory simultaneously
- corn bread — a baked or fried flat bread made with cornmeal and, variously, milk or water, flour, eggs, sugar, etc.
- corndodger — a small cake of cornmeal, baked or fried hard
- cornfields — Plural form of cornfield.
- coromandel — calamander
- coronalled — a crown; coronet.
- coronetted — Bearing one or more coronets.
- corporated — Simple past tense and past participle of corporate.
- corregidor — an island at the entrance to Manila Bay, in the Philippines: site of the defeat of American forces by the Japanese (1942) in World War II
- correlated — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- correspond — If one thing corresponds to another, there is a close similarity or connection between them. You can also say that two things correspond.
- corriedale — a breed of sheep reared for both wool and meat, originally developed in New Zealand and Australia
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- corrodible — Readily corroded.
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- corticated — having a cortex.
- coruscated — Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.
- corydaline — an alkaloid, C22H27NO4, that is found in the roots of certain plants of the genus Corydalis
- cosmodrome — a site, esp one in the former Soviet Union, from which spacecraft are launched
- cotehardie — (in the Middle Ages) a close-fitting outer garment with long sleeves, hip-length for men and full-length for women, often laced or buttoned down the front or back.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- coveralled — wearing coveralls
- cowardness — Synonym of cowardice.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
- cradleland — The region where something, especially a race of people, originated.
- cradlesong — a lullaby
- cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
- crandalled — Simple past tense and past participle of crandall.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crash diet — a strict diet which is intended to produce drastic results in a relatively short period
- crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
- crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.