9-letter words containing a, l, d, o
- caldecott — Randolph1846-86; Eng. artist & illustrator: illustrated many books for children
- caledonia — Scotland
- calfdozer — a small bulldozer
- call down — to request or invoke
- call-down — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- callboard — a notice board listing opportunities for performers
- calloused — A foot or hand that is calloused is covered in calluses.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- 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
- canoodled — Simple past tense and past participle of canoodle.
- canoodles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canoodle.
- cap cloud — a stationary cloud directly above an isolated mountain peak. Compare banner cloud, crest cloud.
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caracoled — Simple past tense and past participle of caracole.
- carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
- cartloads — Plural form of cartload.
- caseloads — Plural form of caseload.
- cataloged — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- caudillos — Plural form of caudillo.
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- chalcedon — ancient Greek city on the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium: site of the 4th ecumenical council, a.d. 451
- 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
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- cladodial — resembling a cladode
- cladogram — a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a clade
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- clay road — an unsealed and unmetalled road in a rural area
- 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 soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- 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.