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13-letter words containing s, c, i, d

  • black studies — a program of studies in black history and culture offered by a school or college, often including Afro-American history and black literature.
  • black-a-vised — having a dark complexion.
  • bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
  • body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
  • bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • braggadocious — boastful
  • business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
  • cactus dahlia — a double-flowered variety of dahlia
  • called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
  • candidateship — candidature
  • candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
  • candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
  • candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
  • candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
  • capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
  • 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.
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • cardinal fish — a small brightly coloured fish found in shallow tropical seas, of the family Apogonidae, the male of which often broods eggs in its mouth
  • cardinal sign — any of the four astrological signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, that begin at the equinoxes and solstices, thus marking the beginning of the seasons: characterized by the attribute of strong initiative.
  • cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
  • carias andino — Tiburcio [tee-voor-syaw] /tiˈvur syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1968, Honduran lawyer, soldier, and statesman: president 1933–49.
  • carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
  • cased edition — a hardback book sold in a protective box that is open at one edge so that you can see the spine of the book
  • casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
  • cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
  • cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
  • cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
  • casual friday — In some companies, employees are allowed to wear clothes that are more informal than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a casual Friday.
  • cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • caxias do sul — a city in S Brazil.
  • cell division — the division of a cell into two new cells during growth or reproduction
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • characterised — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
  • chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
  • child custody — custody (def 4).
  • 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 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.
  • child version — (system management)   In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
  • child-custody — custody (def 4).
  • childlessness — The state of being childless.
  • childlikeness — the character of being like a child
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chiloe island — an island administered by Chile, off the W coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean: timber. Pop: 154 775 (2002, Chiloé province). Area: 8394 sq km (3240 sq miles)
  • chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
  • chrisom child — a baptized child that dies in its first month.
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