10-letter words containing n, d, o
- chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chardonnay — a white grape originally grown in the Burgundy region of France, and now throughout the wine-producing world
- chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre
- chase down — If you chase someone down, you run after them or follow them quickly and catch them.
- chiffonade — finely shredded leaf vegetables used as a base for a dish or as a garnish
- chilomonad — any of the colorless protozoalike algae of the genus Chilomonas (phylum Cryptophyta), chiefly saprozoic flagellates found in fresh waters that have become stagnant: popular in laboratory studies.
- chionodoxa — any plant of the liliaceous genus Chionodoxa, of S Europe and W Asia
- chironomid — a member of the Chironomidae, a family of nonbiting midges
- chlorodyne — a drug, containing chloroform among other ingredients, with sedative, narcotic and pain-relieving properties
- choke down — to swallow with difficulty
- chondrites — Plural form of chondrite.
- chondritic — (geology) Of or pertaining to a chondrite.
- chondritis — a swelling and tenderness of cartilage
- chondromas — Plural form of chondroma.
- chondrules — Plural form of chondrule.
- chord line — the imaginary straight line joining the leading edge and trailing edge of an aerofoil
- chow hound — a person who eats food in large quantities or with great gusto; glutton.
- chronicled — a chronological record of events; a history.
- chunderous — nauseating
- cladoceran — any minute freshwater crustacean of the order Cladocera, which includes the water fleas
- clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
- clamp-down — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- clampdowns — Plural form of clampdown.
- climb down — If you climb down in an argument or dispute, you admit that you are wrong, or change your intentions or demands.
- climb-down — a retreat, as from an indefensible opinion or position.
- clog dance — a dance in which clogs are worn to beat out the rhythm
- close down — to cease or cause to cease operations
- closed-end — of or pertaining to an investment company issuing a fixed number of shares which are traded on an exchange
- closedness — The property of being closed.
- closedowns — Plural form of closedown.
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- cloud nine — a condition of great joy or bliss; euphoric state
- cloudiness — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- cnidocysts — a nematocyst.
- cnidophore — a part or organ bearing cnidoblasts.
- co-edition — a title published jointly by two publishers
- co-founder — a person who founds or establishes something with another.
- co-ordinal — belonging to the same order.
- coadjacent — something that is adjacent to another thing in experience or thought
- coadjutant — cooperating
- coadjuvant — Cooperating.
- coastlands — Plural form of coastland.
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- cockneydom — cockneys considered together as a group
- codecenter — (programming) (Formerly Saber-C) A proprietary software development environment for C programs, offering an integrated toolkit for developing, testing, debugging and maintainance.
- codominant — (of genes) having both alleles expressed equally in the phenotype of the organism
- coextended — Simple past tense and past participle of coextend.
- coffee and — coffee and a snack.
- coffee-and — coffee and a snack.