8-letter words containing a, c, d
- cavitied — Having cavities.
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- cayenned — sprinkled or seasoned with cayenne
- cb radio — a device that transmits and receives radio signals only within a designated band of frequencies. Compare Citizens Band.
- cedillas — Plural form of cedilla.
- cellared — Simple past tense and past participle of cellar.
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- cephalad — towards the head or anterior part
- ceramide — any of a class of biologically important compounds used as moisturizers in skin-care preparations
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- cga card — a computer card for the display of graphics in colour introduced by IBM in 1981
- chad box — (hardware) (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
- chadarim — plural of cheder.
- chadless — (of a keypunch) not producing chads
- chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
- chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
- chalcids — Plural form of chalcid.
- chaldaic — an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea; a Chaldean
- chaldean — a member of an ancient Semitic people who controlled S Babylonia from the late 8th to the late 7th century bc
- chaldron — a unit of capacity equal to 36 bushels. Formerly used in the US for the measurement of solids, being equivalent to 1.268 cubic metres. Used in Britain for both solids and liquids, it is equivalent to 1.309 cubic metres
- chaliced — (of plants) having cup-shaped flowers
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- chandler — a dealer in a specified trade or merchandise
- chaordic — (of a system, organization, or natural process) governed by or combining elements of both chaos and order
- characid — (zoology) Any member of the Characidae.
- charades — a parlour game in which one team acts out each syllable of a word, the other team having to guess the word
- charidee — a jocular spelling of charity, as pronounced in a mid-Atlantic accent
- charlady — a charwoman
- chasidic — Hasid.
- chasidim — Hasidim
- chaudron — (obsolete) entrails.
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- cheddars — Plural form of cheddar.
- cheddary — resembling or pertaining to cheddar cheese
- chelated — (chemistry, of a metal atom) bound with one or more chelates.
- chicaned — Simple past tense and past participle of chicane.
- chillada — a kind of fried patty
- chiphead — (slang) A microchip expert.
- choanoid — (anatomy) funnel-shaped; applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the eyeball in many reptiles and mammals.
- chokidar — (in India) a warden, custodian, or gatekeeper
- chondral — of or relating to cartilage
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- chordata — the phylum comprising the chordates.
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- chresard — the amount of water present in the soil that is available to plants
- ciliated — possessing or relating to cilia
- citadels — Plural form of citadel.
- citrated — treated with a citrate
- cityward — towards a city
- claddagh — Irish ring