8-letter words containing a, c, d
- breached — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- brocaded — fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- c++linda — (language)
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- cabbaged — Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cabstand — a taxi rank
- cacodoxy — an erroneous doctrine or heterodoxy
- cadaster — an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes
- cadastre — public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- caddised — trimmed with caddis
- caddying — Present participle of caddy.
- cadenced — having or marked by a rhythmical cadence: the cadenced steps of marching troops.
- cadences — Plural form of cadence.
- cadenzas — Plural form of cadenza.
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- cadillac — something that is the most luxurious or highest quality of its kind
- cadinene — (organic compound) Any of a group of isomeric sesquiterpenes found in juniper essential oil.
- cadreman — an officer or enlisted person in a military cadre.
- caducean — relating to a caduceus
- caduceus — a staff entwined with two serpents and bearing a pair of wings at the top, carried by Hermes (Mercury) as messenger of the gods
- caducity — perishableness
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- caftaned — wearing a caftan
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
- calandra — A large Eurasian lark with a stout bill and a black patch on each side of the neck.
- calcined — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
- caldaria — Plural form of caldarium.
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- caldwell — Erskine (ˈɜːskɪn). 1903–87, US novelist whose works include Tobacco Road (1933)
- calendal — relating to the calends
- calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
- calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- calicoed — dressed in calico.
- calidity — warmth
- caliduct — a pipe or duct for conveying a heating medium, as hot air or steam.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calvados — a department of N France in the Basse-Normandie region. Capital: Caen. Pop: 659 893 (2003 est). Area: 5693 sq km (2198 sq miles)
- calycoid — resembling a calyx
- cambered — Having camber.
- cambodia — a country in SE Asia: became part of French Indochina in 1887; achieved self-government in 1949 and independence in 1953; civil war (1970–74) ended in victory for the Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Kampuchea (1975) and carried out extreme-radical political and economic reforms resulting in a considerable reduction of the population; Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and set up a pro-Vietnamese government who reverted (1981) to the name Cambodia; after Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 a peace settlement with exiled factions was followed in 1993 by the adoption of a democratic monarchist constitution restoring Prince Sihanouk to the throne. The country contains the central plains of the Mekong River and the Cardamom Mountains in the SW. Official language: Khmer; French is also widely spoken. Currency: riel. Capital: Phnom Penh. Pop: 15 205 539 (2013 est). Area: 181 000 sq km (69 895 sq miles)
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.