12-letter words containing ad
- camera-ready — designating or of copy, artwork, etc. that is ready to be photographed for making into a plate for printing
- canada goose — A Canada goose is a grayish-brown wild goose that comes from North America.
- cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- carload rate — a special low rate for shipment by carloads
- cash advance — an amount of money borrowed as a short-term loan against a salary, credit card, etc
- cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
- catadioptric — involving a combination of reflecting and refracting components
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- chained lady — the constellation Andromeda.
- chapter head — printed material appearing before and usually above the text of a chapter, as a title, number, quotation, etc.
- cheerleaders — Plural form of cheerleader.
- cheerleading — the action or skill of a cheerleader.
- chef's salad — A chef's salad is a green salad with hard-boiled egg and strips of meat and cheese on top.
- chicken head — (graphics, abuse) The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
- chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
- chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
- circumradius — the radius of the circle circumscribed around a triangle.
- city academy — (in England and Wales) a type of secondary school funded partly by the government and partly by private finance
- ciudad ojeda — a city in NW Venezuela, on Lake Maracaibo.
- cladocarpous — pleurocarpous.
- cladogenesis — adaptive evolution leading to a greater variety of species
- cladogenetic — relating to cladogenesis
- cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium
- classloading — (computing, Java) The dynamic loading of classes into a virtual machine, as performed by a classloader.
- clear-headed — If you describe someone as clear-headed, you mean that they are sensible and think clearly, especially in difficult situations.
- coadaptation — the state of two or more things adapting to one another
- combat-ready — ready for combat
- conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
- contradances — Plural form of contradance.
- contradicted — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- contradicter — One who contradicts.
- contradictor — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- countertrade — international trade in which payment is made in goods rather than currency
- country road — a road in the country
- cradle vault — barrel vault.
- cradleboards — Plural form of cradleboard.
- crowned head — a monarch
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- dad and dave — stereotypes of the unsophisticated rural dweller before World War II
- darmstadtium — a synthetic radioactive element produced in small quantities by cold fusion in a linear accelerator. Symbol: Ds; atomic no: 110
- dead account — an account that is no longer being used and on which no transactions have taken place for a considerable length of time
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- dead soldier — an empty beer or spirit bottle
- dead spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
- dead-end job — a job that has no prospects and will mean that one does the same kind of (low-grade) work for ever