9-letter words containing a, u, d, c
- grand cru — See under cru.
- gray duck — any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- handcuffs — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- hardcourt — relating to a type of tennis court that is made of hard material
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- jacquards — Plural form of jacquard.
- jaundiced — affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice: jaundiced skin.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- judaistic — an adherent or supporter of Judaism.
- judgmatic — judicious.
- judicable — capable of being or liable to be judged or tried.
- judicator — a person who acts as judge or sits in judgment.
- judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- juicehead — a heavy drinker of alcoholic liquor.
- juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- lady luck — the personification of luck as a lady bringing good or bad fortune: Lady Luck was against us and we lost the game.
- lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
- lame duck — an elected official or group of officials, as a legislator, continuing in office during the period between an election defeat and a successor's assumption of office.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- launchpad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- loculated — Locular.
- ludically — in a ludic or playful manner
- maculated — Simple past tense and past participle of maculate.
- manducate — to chew; masticate; eat.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.
- modular c — A preprocessor-based extension to C allowing modules.
- muckraked — Simple past tense and past participle of muckrake.
- mud crack — a fracture, part of a desiccation pattern, caused by the drying out and shrinking of silt or clay.
- mud-caked — covered with mud or dirt
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscavado — muscovado.
- muscovado — raw or unrefined sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses.
- mustached — Having a mustache.
- nucleated — having a nucleus.
- osculated — Simple past tense and past participle of osculate.
- outcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of outcaste.
- paedeutic — of or relating to the study of teaching
- pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
- pedicular — of or relating to lice.
- poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- precaudal — in front of the tail or caudal vertebrae of an animal