9-letter words containing a, d, l
- 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
- class day — a day during the commencement season on which the members of the graduating class in U.S. colleges and schools celebrate the completion of their course with special ceremonies.
- 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.
- claudette — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- clay road — an unsealed and unmetalled road in a rural area
- cleareyed — having clear eyes or vision
- clearweed — a plant from the nettle family
- cleavaged — Having (a particular kind of) cleavage.
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- cleveland — a former county of NE England formed in 1974 from parts of E Durham and N Yorkshire; replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Hartlepool (Durham), Stockton-on-Tees (Durham), Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire) and Redcar and Cleveland (North Yorkshire)
- 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.
- clodpated — stupid
- clogdance — a folk dance characterized by heavy stamping steps, performed while wearing clogs
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- cloud ear — tree ear
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- cloudland — region of dreams, imagination, or impractical speculation; visionary realm
- 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.
- club deal — a takeover bid in which several private-equity companies form a syndicate to acquire a target company
- club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- coachload — A coachload of people is a group of people who are travelling somewhere together in a coach.
- coalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of coalesce.
- coalfield — A coalfield is a region where there is coal under the ground.
- coastland — the land fringing a coast
- coccoidal — relating to a coccus
- code flag — a flag forming part of a signal code.
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold call — If someone makes a cold call, they telephone or visit someone they have never contacted, without making an appointment, in order to try and sell something.
- cold case — a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved
- cold cash — money paid in full at the time of a business transaction
- cold meat — a form of meat that has been cooked and allowed to become cold
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- cold-call — a visit or telephone call to a prospective customer without an appointment or a previous introduction.
- cold-draw — to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) without preheating the metal.
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.