9-letter words containing a, c, e, n, d
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
- audiencia — a high court, found in South America during the colonial period
- avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
- backbends — Plural form of backbend.
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- barnacled — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- benchland — a stretch of level ground at the foot of mountains
- blackened — having been cooked until a very dark or black colour
- cacodemon — an evil spirit or devil
- cadencing — rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words: the cadence of language.
- cadential — relating to or belonging to a cadence or a cadenza
- caesionid — (zoology) Any member of the Caesionidae.
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- caledonia — Scotland
- calendars — Plural form of calendar.
- calenders — Plural form of calender.
- calendric — Of or pertaining to a calendar.
- calendula — any Eurasian plant of the genus Calendula, esp the pot marigold, having orange-and-yellow rayed flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- campodean — a campodeid.
- canadiens — Alternative spelling of Canadiens.
- canalised — to make a canal or canals through.
- canalized — Simple past tense and past participle of canalize.
- cancelled — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
- candlelit — A candlelit room or table is lit by the light of candles.
- 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
- 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.
- canulated — Simple past tense and past participle of canulate.
- canvassed — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- caponized — Simple past tense and past participle of caponize.
- captained — Simple past tense and past participle of captain.
- captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
- carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
- cardamine — bittercress
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins