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13-letter words containing u, n, d, e

  • compound tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of several sinusoidal waveforms superimposed upon one main one
  • computer nerd — someone who is inordinately preoccupied with using computers, at the expense of ordinary social skills
  • conduciveness — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
  • conduct sheet — a form for detailing information about a person's offences and punishments
  • conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
  • confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
  • conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
  • consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
  • continuedness — the state of being continued
  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
  • cotes-du-nord — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • cough and die — (jargon)   barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.
  • counter-order — an order which revokes a previous order
  • counter-trend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
  • counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
  • counterdemand — a demand made in response to another demand
  • counterfeited — Simple past tense and past participle of counterfeit.
  • countermanded — Simple past tense and past participle of countermand.
  • countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
  • counterorders — Plural form of counterorder.
  • counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
  • countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
  • countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
  • country dance — a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line
  • country-dance — a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.
  • coup de poing — (no longer in technical use) a Lower Paleolithic stone hand ax, pointed or ovate in shape and having sharp cutting edges.
  • cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
  • credit crunch — A credit crunch is a period during which there is a sudden reduction in the amount of money that banks and other lenders have available to lend.
  • credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
  • culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.
  • culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
  • cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
  • currency bond — a bond payable in legal tender.
  • current yield — the yield of a bond or similar asset, expressed as a ratio of the annual interest payment to the clean price
  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • cut and paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
  • cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
  • cut-and-dried — prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
  • cut-and-paste — assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
  • dauntlessness — The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
  • deaf-and-dumb — unable to hear or speak
  • dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
  • debit account — a bank account which allows you to buy goods or services with money that you have put into the account
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