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

  • casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
  • cash dealings — transactions that are carried out using cash
  • 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)
  • 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 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 version — (system management)   In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
  • 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)
  • christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
  • circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • citizens band — a two-way radio service (Citizens Radio Service) licensed by the FCC to a U.S. citizen for short-distance personal or business communications between fixed or mobile stations. Abbreviation: CB.
  • civil defense — Civil defense is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
  • civilizedness — having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc.
  • clandestinely — characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years.
  • clandestinity — secrecy; the quality of being clandestine
  • classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • 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.
  • codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
  • collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • commendations — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
  • committedness — The state or condition of being committed; commitment.
  • comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
  • 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.
  • computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
  • comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
  • conceitedness — having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.
  • condemnations — Plural form of condemnation.
  • condensations — Plural form of condensation.
  • condescending — If you say that someone is condescending, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they talk or behave in a way which shows that they think they are superior to other people.
  • condescension — Condescension is condescending behaviour.
  • conduciveness — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
  • confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
  • confidingness — The state or quality of being confiding.
  • confirmedness — The quality of being confirmed.
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