9-letter words containing a, l
- cultivars — Plural form of cultivar.
- cultivate — If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- culturati — the cultured elite of a society
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- cunicular — a small conduit or burrow, as an underground drain or rabbit hole.
- cup coral — any of several species of coral in which the polyp forms and houses itself in a cup-shaped depression in the skeleton.
- cup final — the final of any cup competition
- cup plant — a hardy composite plant, Silphium perfoliatum, of eastern North America, having large yellow flower heads and opposite leaves that envelop the stem, forming a cup.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curb ball — stoop ball played off a street curb.
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- curialist — a member or supporter of the papal curia
- curlpaper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curricula — the aggregate of courses of study given in a school, college, university, etc.: The school is adding more science courses to its curriculum.
- cursorial — adapted for running
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtailer — One who curtails.
- curtal ax — a cutlass
- curtalaxe — a cutlass
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- cut along — to hurry off
- cut class — miss a school lesson
- cut glass — Cut glass is glass that has patterns cut into its surface.
- cuticulae — Plural form of cuticula.
- cuticular — Of or pertaining to the cuticle.
- cutlasses — Plural form of cutlass.
- cyan blue — a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.
- cyclamate — a salt or ester of cyclamic acid. Certain of the salts have a very sweet taste and were formerly used as food additives and sugar substitutes
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
- cyclicals — Stocks in cyclical companies (those whose success varies with the seasonal or economic cycle).
- cycloidal — Pertaining to or resembling a cycloid; or a circle.
- cyclopean — of, relating to, or resembling the Cyclops
- cyclopian — having only one eye
- cyclorama — a large picture, such as a battle scene, on the interior wall of a cylindrical room, designed to appear in natural perspective to a spectator in the centre
- cyllenian — of or relating to Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, Greece, or to the god Hermes, reputed to have been born there.
- cymbalist — A musician who plays the cymbals.
- cynically — If you say that someone is cynically doing something, you mean they are doing it to benefit themselves and they do not care that they are deceiving, harming, or using people.
- cytocidal — capable of killing cells.
- cytoplasm — the protoplasm of a cell contained within the cell membrane but excluding the nucleus: contains organelles, vesicles, and other inclusions
- cytoplast — the intact cytoplasm of a single cell
- dactylics — Plural form of dactylic.
- dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
- dado rail — a moulding at about waist height on an interior wall, used for decoration and to protect the wall