9-letter words containing a, c, r, d
- cheerlead — to lead a crowd in formal cheers at sports events
- childcare — Childcare refers to looking after children, and to the facilities which help parents to do so.
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- chondroma — a benign cartilaginous growth or neoplasm
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- churidars — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- circadian — of or relating to biological processes that occur regularly at about 24-hour intervals, even in the absence of periodicity in the environment
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- clabbered — Simple past tense and past participle of clabber.
- cladogram — a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a clade
- clambered — an act or instance of clambering.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- clarified — Clarified butter has been made clear by being heated.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- clarthead — a slow-witted or stupid person
- clattered — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clay road — an unsealed and unmetalled road in a rural area
- cleareyed — having clear eyes or vision
- clearweed — a plant from the nettle family
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- cloud ear — tree ear
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- club card — A club card is a card issued by a retailer which allows the card holder to make discounted purchases.
- cnidarian — any invertebrate of the phylum Cnidaria, which comprises the coelenterates
- co durham — County Durham
- coadjutor — a bishop appointed as assistant to a diocesan bishop
- coarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of coarsen.
- coastward — towards the coast
- coat card — face card.
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- cocreated — Simple past tense and past participle of cocreate.
- codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
- cofferdam — a watertight structure, usually of sheet piling, that encloses an area under water, pumped dry to enable construction work to be carried out. Below a certain depth a caisson is required
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold-draw — to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) without preheating the metal.
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- colombard — a white grape grown in France, California, and Australia, used for making wine
- coloradan — of Colorado
- colubriad — a poem about a snake