9-letter words containing a, c, d
- candlemas — Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days
- candlenut — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, of tropical Asia and Polynesia
- candlepin — a bowling pin, as used in skittles, tenpin bowling, candlepins, etc
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- candy bar — A candy bar is a long, thin, sweet food, usually covered in chocolate.
- candy-ass — a timid or cowardly person; wimp
- candygram — a message accompanied by sweets
- candytuft — either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers
- cane reed — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- cane toad — a large toad, Rhinella marina, native to Central and South America but introduced into many countries to control insects and other pests of sugar-cane plantations
- canefield — A field where cane is grown.
- cannonade — A cannonade is an intense continuous attack of gunfire.
- canonised — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
- canonized — Made part of the canon, made official.
- canoodled — Simple past tense and past participle of canoodle.
- canoodles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canoodle.
- cantharid — any beetle of the family Cantharidae, having a soft elongated body; though found frequenting flowers, they are carnivorous
- canulated — Simple past tense and past participle of canulate.
- canvassed — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- cap cloud — a stationary cloud directly above an isolated mountain peak. Compare banner cloud, crest cloud.
- capitated — having a fixed upper limit
- caponized — Simple past tense and past participle of caponize.
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- captained — Simple past tense and past participle of captain.
- captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
- car radio — a radio built into the dashboard of an automobile
- caracoled — Simple past tense and past participle of caracole.
- carangids — Plural form of carangid.
- carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
- carapaced — (of an animal) having a carapace
- carbamide — urea.
- carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
- carbonado — a piece of meat, fish, etc, scored and grilled
- carcinoid — a small serotonin-secreting tumour, usually slow-growing and occurring in the gastrointestinal tract, although it may spread to the liver
- card file — a collection of cards containing data or records, arranged systematically, as in alphabetical order, in boxes or drawers
- card game — A card game is a game that is played using a set of playing cards.
- card tart — a credit-card holder who continually changes providers, transferring his or her balance to another provider whenever the agreed period of low interest on the prior loan is about to expire
- card vote — a vote by delegates, esp at a trade-union conference, in which each delegate's vote counts as a vote by all his or her constituents
- cardamine — bittercress
- cardamoms — Plural form of cardamom.
- cardboard — Cardboard is thick, stiff paper that is used, for example, to make boxes and models.
- cardiacal — cardiac
- cardialgy — cardialgia
- cardigans — Plural form of cardigan.
- cardinals — of prime importance; chief; principal: of cardinal significance.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
- cardshark — (chiefly, US) A cardsharp.
- cardsharp — a professional card player who cheats