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13-letter words containing s, r, d, l

  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • 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.
  • casualty ward — a ward which temporarily accommodates patients who have been treated in the casualty department and who need to stay in hospital
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • 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 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).
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
  • chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
  • chrisom child — a baptized child that dies in its first month.
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
  • 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-cropped — Close-cropped hair or grass is cut very short.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
  • cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
  • colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
  • comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
  • considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
  • consideringly — in a considering manner
  • consolidators — Plural form of consolidator.
  • constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
  • coresidential — relating to joint residency
  • costochondral — (anatomy) Relating to ribs and cartilage.
  • cradle scythe — cradle (def 4b).
  • crash landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
  • credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
  • credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
  • crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
  • crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
  • crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
  • crystalloidal — Relating to a crystalloid.
  • custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
  • cylinder desk — a desk having a cylinder front, usually a tambour but occasionally of solid wood.
  • cylinder seal — a cylindrical seal of stone, clay, or precious stone decorated with linear designs, found in the Middle East and Balkans: dating from about 6000 bc
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • danger signal — any type of signal that indicates danger
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
  • dar es salaam — the chief port of Tanzania, on the Indian Ocean: capital of German East Africa (1891–1916); capital of Tanzania until 1983 when it was officially replaced by Dodoma, though still retaining some functions; university (1963). Pop: 2 683 000 (2005 est)
  • darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
  • das rheingold — an opera by Wagner (1869), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
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