12-letter words containing u, d, o
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
- call of duty — responsibilities
- calycoideous — calycoid
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
- caustic soda — Caustic soda is a powerful chemical substance used to make strong soaps and clean drains.
- cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
- change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
- changearound — the act of changing to a different position
- chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
- child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
- chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- circumvolved — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve.
- ciudad ojeda — a city in NW Venezuela, on Lake Maracaibo.
- cladocarpous — pleurocarpous.
- cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
- close-hauled — with the sails flat, so as to sail as close to the wind as possible
- closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
- closemouthed — not talking much; telling little; taciturn
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
- cloud-capped — having clouds around the top
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- colour depth — bits per pixel
- colour guard — a military guard in a parade, ceremony, etc, that carries and escorts the flag or regimental colours
- colour index — the difference between the apparent magnitude of a star measured in one standard waveband and in a longer standard waveband, indicating its colour and temperature
- colour model — (graphics) Any system for representing colours as ordered sets of numbers. The most common colour models are RGB, CMYK, and HSB. There are several others, e.g. CMY, and the "Lab" system(?). See also: Pantone.
- colour slide — a colour transparency
- colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
- colour-coded — Things that are colour-coded use colours to represent different features or functions.
- columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
- column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- commodiously — In a commodious manner.
- communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- compound eye — the convex eye of insects and some crustaceans, consisting of numerous separate light-sensitive units (ommatidia)
- compound key — (database) (Or "multi-part key", "concatenated key") A key which consists of more than one attribute of the body of information (e.g. database "record") it identifies.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- compte rendu — a short review or notice, esp of a book