9-letter words containing a, u, d, c
- crusaders — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusading — campaigning
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cuadrilla — a small group, esp a matador's assistants
- cuddlable — Able to be cuddled.
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- 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.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curandera — (in Hispanic America) a female healer or shaman
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- curd tart — a tart with a sweet filling in which curd is the main ingredient
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- 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.
- dachshund — A dachshund is a small dog that has very short legs, a long body, and long ears.
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- deactuate — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- dead duck — If you describe someone or something as a dead duck, you are emphasizing that you think they have absolutely no chance of succeeding.
- death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
- debauched — If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people.
- debauchee — a man who leads a life of reckless drinking, promiscuity, and self-indulgence
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- decalogue — Ten Commandments
- decaudate — to take off the tail of (an animal)
- deciduate — having or characterized by a decidua.
- decoupage — the art or process of decorating a surface with shapes or illustrations cut from paper, card, etc
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- decurtate — Shortened, curtailed.
- decussate — to cross or cause to cross in the form of the letter X; intersect
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- diacodium — (in pre-modern medicine) a herbal remedy made chiefly from poppies, acting as an opiate and thus used to aid sleep
- diazeutic — Alternative form of diazeuctic.
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- dicacious — teasing and cheeky in the way one speaks
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- dictature — dictatorship
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- docu-soap — a television documentary series in which the lives of the people filmed are presented as entertainment or drama