12-letter words containing l, d, o
- coincidently — in a coincident manner
- coincidingly — So as to coincide.
- cold cathode — a cathode from which electrons are emitted at ambient temperature, due to a high potential gradient at the surface
- cold comfort — If you say that a slightly encouraging fact or event is cold comfort to someone, you mean that it gives them little or no comfort because their situation is so difficult or unpleasant.
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- cold warrior — a person who engages in or promotes a cold war
- cold working — Cold working is a process in which metal is shaped at a fairly low temperature. This increases the metal's yield strength but makes it less ductile.
- cold-blooded — Someone who is cold-blooded does not show any pity or emotion.
- cold-hearted — A cold-hearted person does not feel any affection or sympathy towards other people.
- cold-pressed — (of an unrefined oil such as olive oil) produced by pressing the parent seed, nut, or grain at the lowest possible temperature without any further pressing
- collaborated — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- collide with — If a vehicle collides with another vehicle or a person, it hits something or someone that is traveling in a different direction.
- collingswood — a city in SW New Jersey.
- collodionize — (transitive) To prepare or treat with collodion.
- colonialised — to make colonial.
- colonialized — to make colonial.
- 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.
- command line — typed instructions that access a computer system
- commandingly — being in command: a commanding officer.
- commodiously — In a commodious manner.
- common scold — (in early common law) a habitually rude and brawling woman whose conduct was subject to punishment as a public nuisance.
- complemented — having a complement or complements.
- complexified — Simple past tense and past participle of complexify.
- complexioned — of a specified complexion
- complimented — Simple past tense and past participle of compliment.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- compressedly — in a compressed manner
- conchoidally — In a conchoidal manner.
- concordantly — agreeing; harmonious.
- conditionals — Plural form of conditional.
- conductively — In a conductive manner.
- conductorial — relating to a conductor
- conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
- coney island — an island off the S shore of Long Island, New York: site of a large amusement park
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- confidential — Information that is confidential is meant to be kept secret or private.
- conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
- confoundedly — bewildered; confused; perplexed.
- considerable — Considerable means great in amount or degree.