15-letter words containing u, d, c
- code of conduct — The code of conduct for a group or organization is an agreement on rules of behaviour for the members of that group or organization.
- coffee-coloured — having the colour of coffee; dark brown; light brown
- college pudding — a baked or steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit and spice
- college student — a student at a university or college
- common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
- compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
- compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
- compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- compound magnet — a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.
- compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- conductiometric — conductometric
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
- contadora group — a group of four Latin American nations, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela, formed in January, 1983, to help solve the problems of the region.
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- controlled drug — a drug whose sale is illegal except through prescribed medical channels
- copper-coloured — of a reddish-brown colour
- corrugated iron — a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs
- cottage pudding — plain cake covered with a sweet sauce
- cotton industry — the business of spinning and weaving cotton
- coude telescope — a telescope in which light from the primary mirror is reflected along the polar axis to additional mirrors, and in which the focus (coudé focus) is independent of the telescope's motion, permitting the use of heavy instruments without disturbing the delicate balance of the telescope.
- could care less — feel(s) the least possible degree of interest, sympathy, etc.
- counterattacked — Simple past tense and past participle of counterattack.
- counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- countertendency — an opposite tendency
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- country dancing — Country dancing is traditional dancing in which people dance in rows or circles.
- country dweller — a person who lives in the country
- coup de theatre — a dramatic turn of events, esp in a play
- coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
- course of study — an extended period of organized study, often leading to a qualification
- court of record — a court which has a permanent record of its proceedings maintained
- cracked residue — Cracked residue is the substance that is left when hydrocarbons in fuel have decomposed during thermal or catalytic cracking.
- cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
- credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
- croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
- cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
- crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
- crude tank yard — A crude tank yard is a place where tanks of crude oil are stored.
- cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
- cry blue murder — to make an outcry
- cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
- cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
- culture-shocked — a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
- currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials