11-letter words containing s, a, c, d
- contredanse — a courtly Continental version of the English country dance, similar to the quadrille
- convalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of convalesce.
- conversated — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- coon rapids — a city in E Minnesota.
- coordinates — clothes of matching or harmonious colours and design, suitable for wearing together
- copperheads — Plural form of copperhead.
- copyreaders — Plural form of copyreader.
- cordialness — The state or quality of being cordial.
- cordilleras — mountain system of W North America, including all mountains between the E Rockies & the Pacific coast
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- crab spider — any of a family (Thomisidae) of spiders that move sideways like crabs
- crabbedness — The state or quality of being crabbed.
- cracked gas — Cracked gas is gas from a refining process, which is often compressed afterwards.
- craggedness — the quality of being cragged
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- crank-sided — lopsided; askew.
- credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- crescentade — a religious crusade or war fought under the flag of Turkey
- crime squad — (in Britain) a division of the police which identifies and prevents major crimes, esp those crossing regional or national boundaries
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- cross-heads — Printing. a title or heading filling a line or group of lines the full width of the column.
- cross-nodal — having to do with interaction between the senses
- cross-trade — cross (def 26).
- crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
- crossbarred — having a crossbar or crossbars
- crossfaders — Plural form of crossfader.
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- crystalised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalise.
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
- crystalloid — resembling or having the appearance or properties of a crystal or crystalloid
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- cut sb dead — If you see someone you know and cut them dead, you ignore them.
- cycadaceous — belonging or pertaining to the order Cycadales.
- cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
- daisy chain — A daisy chain is a string of daisies that have been joined together by their stems to make a necklace.
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- damascening — Present participle of damascene.
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dance music — music that is suitable for dancing
- darwinistic — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.