9-letter words containing a, c, i, d, e
- chastised — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- chastized — Simple past tense and past participle of chastize.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- chickadee — A chickadee is a small North American bird with gray and black feathers.
- childcare — Childcare refers to looking after children, and to the facilities which help parents to do so.
- chillaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of chillax.
- chipheads — Plural form of chiphead.
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- cichlidae — the family of cichlid fish
- cinquedea — an Italian short sword of the late 15th and early 16th centuries having a broad, tapering blade, often richly ornamented.
- cispadane — on this (the southern) side of the River Po, as viewed from Rome
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- clarified — Clarified butter has been made clear by being heated.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- coalfield — A coalfield is a region where there is coal under the ground.
- cogitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cogitate.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- comedians — Plural form of comedian.
- comedical — of, relating to, or of the nature of comedy.
- companied — Simple past tense and past participle of company.
- compendia — a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
- contained — kept from going beyond certain limits; confined
- coriander — Coriander is a plant with seeds that are used as a spice and leaves that are used as a herb.
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- creamlaid — (of laid paper) cream-coloured and of a ribbed appearance
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
- cycadeoid — a member of an order of plants with woody stems and tough leaves that became extinct during the Cretaceous period
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- dacoitage — (in India and Myanmar) a robbery by an armed gang or dacoit
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- dalliance — If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously.
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- deacidify — to render (a substance) less acidic
- deadstick — To land an aircraft without power.
- decalcify — to remove calcium or lime from (bones, teeth, etc)
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decameric — Of or pertaining to a decamer.
- decamping — Present participle of decamp.
- decanting — to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines