12-letter words containing nd
- conductivity — the property of transmitting heat, electricity, or sound
- 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
- confoundedly — bewildered; confused; perplexed.
- confoundment — The state of being confounded.
- cook islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)
- corespondent — a person charged with having committed adultery with the wife or husband from whom a divorce is being sought
- corresponded — to be in agreement or conformity (often followed by with or to): His actions do not correspond with his words.
- cotton candy — Cotton candy is a large pink or white mass of sugar threads that is eaten from a stick. It is sold at fairs or other outdoor events.
- counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
- countermands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermand.
- countertrend — a trend which is contrary to the established or perceived trend
- cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- cum dividend — (of shares, etc) with the right to current dividend
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- cut and fill — a process of localized gradation whereby material eroded from one place is deposited a short distance away.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyberfriends — Plural form of cyberfriend.
- cyclandelate — a medicine for relaxing smooth muscle and encouraging blood cell dilation
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- cylindricity — the state or quality of being cylindrical
- cylindriform — having the form or shape of a cylinder
- dad and dave — stereotypes of the unsophisticated rural dweller before World War II
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- de havilland — Sir Geoffrey. 1882–1965, British aircraft designer. He produced many military aircraft and the first jet airliners
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- 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-end job — a job that has no prospects and will mean that one does the same kind of (low-grade) work for ever
- decompounded — Simple past tense and past participle of decompound.
- decrescendos — Plural form of decrescendo.
- dedekind cut — a method of according the same status to irrational and rational numbers, devised by Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831–1916)
- degenderized — Simple past tense and past participle of degenderize.
- deindexation — the state of being no longer index-linked
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- demand paged — demand paging
- demimondaine — a woman of the demimonde
- dendrologist — the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
- dependancies — Plural form of dependancy.
- dependencies — the state of being dependent; dependence.
- descendingly — In a descending manner.
- desmond tutu — a university degree graded 2:2 (second class lower bracket)
- despondences — Plural form of despondence.
- despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
- devon island — an island in the Nunavut Territory, N Canada. 20,900 sq. mi. (54,100 sq. km).
- diamond bird — any small insectivorous Australian songbird of the genus Pardalotus, having a diamond-patterned plumage