8-letter words containing a, c, d
- comrades — A companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization.
- concaved — curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex (def 1).
- condylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
- conehead — a stupid person.
- conelrad — a US defence and information system used between 1951 and 1963 in the event of air attack
- conidial — of or like conidia
- conoidal — Having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.
- conrad i — died a.d. 918, king of Germany 911–918.
- cookmaid — a maid who assists a cook
- copyread — to subedit
- coracoid — a paired ventral bone of the pectoral girdle in vertebrates. In mammals it is reduced to a peg (the coracoid process) on the scapula
- cordelia — a feminine name
- cordials — Plural form of cordial.
- cordovan — a fine leather now made principally from horsehide, isolated from the skin layers above and below it and tanned
- cordwain — cordovan leather
- cornland — the type of land that is suitable for growing corn or grain
- coronado — Franˈcisˈco Vásquez de (fʀɑnˈðisˈkɔ vɑskɛð ðɛ) ; fränthēsˈk^ō väsˈketh the) 1510?-54?; Sp. explorer of what is now the Southwest in the U.S.
- corraded — Simple past tense and past participle of corrade.
- corrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrade.
- corridas — Plural form of corrida.
- cortland — a variety of large, dark-red apple
- costards — Plural form of costard.
- coumadin — Synonym of warfarin.
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
- cournand — André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- cowardly — If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
- cowardry — Lb uncommon Cowardice.
- cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
- crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
- crackled — Simple past tense and past participle of crackle.
- cradling — a framework of iron or wood, esp as used in the construction of a ceiling
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- crandall — Prudence, 1803–90, U.S. educator and civil-rights activist.
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
- crannied — full of crannies or chinks
- crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
- cratered — If the surface of something is cratered, it has many craters in it.
- cravened — Simple past tense and past participle of craven.
- crawdads — Plural form of crawdad.
- crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- credenda — doctrines to be believed; matters of faith
- credenza — a type of buffet or sideboard
- cremated — Simple past tense and past participle of cremate.
- crenated — Crenate.
- cressida — (in medieval adaptations of the story of Troy) a woman who deserts her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek Diomedes
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown