9-letter words containing c, a, n, d, l
- docklands — An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port.
- doctrinal — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
- dodecanal — lauric aldehyde.
- dominical — of or relating to Jesus Christ as Lord.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dulcianas — Plural form of dulciana.
- duplicand — the twofold increase of feu-duty for the period of a year, or the feu-duty paid, as occasioned at specific times
- dynamical — Dynamic.
- enceladus — a giant who was punished for his rebellion against the gods by a fatal blow from a stone cast by Athena. He was believed to be buried under Mount Etna in Sicily
- enchilada — A rolled tortilla with a filling typically of meat and served with a chili sauce.
- enclasped — Simple past tense and past participle of enclasp.
- encodable — able to be encoded
- esclandre — (archaic) Infamy.
- euclidean — (rare) alternative spelling of Euclidean.
- falconoid — an antioxidant compound found in tea and thought to resist cancer
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- handclaps — Plural form of handclap.
- handclasp — a gripping of hands by two or more people, as in greeting, parting, making a commitment, or expressing affection.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- icelandic — of or relating to Iceland, its inhabitants, or their language.
- identical — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- indexical — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
- knaidlach — a dumpling, especially a small ball of matzo meal, eggs, and salt, often mixed with another foodstuff, as ground almonds or grated potato, usually served in soup.
- lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
- 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
- landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- laodicean — lukewarm or indifferent, especially in religion, as were the early Christians of Laodicea.
- lap dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- lap-dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- 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.
- lidocaine — a synthetic crystalline powder, C 14 H 22 N 2 O, used as a local anesthetic and also in the management of certain arrhythmias.
- long card — a card remaining in a hand after all the opponents' cards in that particular suit have been drawn.
- macdonald — James Ramsay, 1866–1937, British statesman and labor leader: prime minister 1924, 1929–35.
- man-child — a male child; boy; son.
- marchland — borderland.
- medicinal — of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
- monodical — Pertaining to monody.
- nonplaced — Not assigned a place.
- nucleated — having a nucleus.
- scablands — rough, barren, volcanic topography with thin soils and little vegetation.
- scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- slamdance — to hurl oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock concert
- snow-clad — covered with snow.
- syndactyl — having certain digits joined together.