9-letter words containing c, a, l, d, r
- doctrinal — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
- dratchell — a scruffy woman; a slut; a drab
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- dropsical — of, like, or affected with dropsy.
- druidical — Alt form Druidical.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dual-carb — (of an engine) equipped with a pair of carburetors.
- dulcamara — a type of vine with orange fruit and purple flowers that is a member of the Solanaceae family
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- dulocracy — rule by slaves.
- eldercare — Care of people who are elderly or infirm, provided by residential institutions, by paid daily help in the home, or by family members.
- escalader — A soldier who escalades.
- esclandre — (archaic) Infamy.
- file card — a card of a size suitable for filing, typically 3 × 5 inches (7.62 × 12.7 cm) or 4 × 6 inches (10.16 × 15.24 cm).
- flashcard — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
- garlicked — flavoured with garlic
- glaciered — covered by, or coming from, glaciers
- gold card — A gold card is a special type of credit card that gives you extra benefits such as a higher spending limit.
- hard clam — a quahog.
- hard coal — anthracite.
- 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.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
- juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
- lace card — (Obsolete) A punched card with all holes punched (also called a "whoopee card" or "ventilator card"). Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism. Card punches could also jam trying to produce these things owing to power-supply problems. When some practical joker fed a lace card through the reader, you needed to clear the jam with a "card knife" - which you used on the joker first.
- lacerated — lacerated.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- land crab — any of several crabs, especially of the family Gecarcinidae, that live chiefly upon land, returning to the sea to breed.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- liar dice — a gambling game in which the throw of five dice by each player is concealed from the opponent and bluffing is permitted
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- long card — a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- marcelled — Simple past tense and past participle of marcel.
- marchland — borderland.
- modular c — A preprocessor-based extension to C allowing modules.
- parcelled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parchedly — in a parched manner
- parodical — having or of the nature of a parody.
- pedicular — of or relating to lice.
- placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.