9-letter words containing a, d, c, t
- costarred — Simple past tense and past participle of costar.
- cot death — Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- cottonade — a coarse fabric of cotton or mixed fibres, used for work clothes, etc
- courtyard — A courtyard is an open area of ground which is surrounded by buildings or walls.
- crispated — Crispate.
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- cryptadia — a collection of things to be kept hidden
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curd tart — a tart with a sweet filling in which curd is the main ingredient
- 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
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- cytocidal — capable of killing cells.
- dacoitage — (in India and Myanmar) a robbery by an armed gang or dacoit
- dactylics — Plural form of dactylic.
- dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
- dadaistic — the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who programmatically challenged established canons of art, thought, morality, etc.
- dalmatics — Plural form of dalmatic.
- daly city — city in W Calif.: suburb of San Francisco: pop. 104,000
- dancettee — having a pattern of chevrons
- dapatical — (obsolete) sumptuous in cheer.
- data jack — (hardware) A wall-mounted or desk-mounted connector (frequently a wide telephone-style 8-pin RJ-45) for connecting to data cabling in a building.
- datacomms — the transmission of data along communications systems
- date back — If something dates back to a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- daycation — a day trip to a resort, hotel, etc that does not involve staying the night
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- deactuate — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- deadstick — To land an aircraft without power.
- deadstock — the merchandise or commodities of a shop, etc, that is unsold and generating no income
- death cap — a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva
- death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
- decadents — Plural form of decadent.
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decameter — dekameter
- decametre — ten metres
- decanoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of decanoic acid.
- decantate — having been repeated or sung again and again
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decanting — to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- decastere — a measure equivalent to ten steres or cubic metres
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- decathect — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.