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13-letter words containing r, u, d, n

  • 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.
  • cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
  • credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
  • credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
  • crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
  • 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.
  • currency bond — a bond payable in legal tender.
  • current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • 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-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • cyanuric acid — a white crystalline powder commonly used to stabilize chlorine in swimming pools. Formula C3H3N3O3
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • 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
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
  • 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.).
  • 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.
  • degranulation — a cellular process in which cytoplasmic granules within certain cells secrete their contents, often to the outside of the cell
  • deliriousness — The characteristic of being delirious.
  • demanufacture — A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
  • demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
  • demi-detourne — a turn in which the dancer on pointe or demi-pointe completes a half turn toward the back foot and lowers the heels, with the back foot finishing in front.
  • denaturalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturalize.
  • denaturations — Plural form of denaturation.
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
  • dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
  • denuclearized — Simple past tense and past participle of denuclearize.
  • depth sounder — an instrument for determining depths under water, especially under a ship.
  • derequisition — to release from military to civilian use
  • designer drug — any of various narcotic or hallucinogenic substances manufactured illegally from a range of chemicals
  • destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
  • desulfuration — to desulfurize.
  • desultoriness — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  • deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist
  • deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
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