9-letter words containing c, a, n, d, l
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- cleveland — a former county of NE England formed in 1974 from parts of E Durham and N Yorkshire; replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Hartlepool (Durham), Stockton-on-Tees (Durham), Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire) and Redcar and Cleveland (North Yorkshire)
- clogdance — a folk dance characterized by heavy stamping steps, performed while wearing clogs
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- cloudland — region of dreams, imagination, or impractical speculation; visionary realm
- club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- coastland — the land fringing a coast
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- collonade — Alternative spelling of colonnade.
- colonnade — A colonnade is a row of evenly-spaced columns.
- coloradan — of Colorado
- concealed — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- concordal — of or relating to concord
- condillac — Étienne Bonnot de (etjɛn bɔno də). 1715–80, French philosopher. He developed Locke's view that all knowledge derives from the senses in his Traité des sensations (1754)
- condyloma — a skin tumour near the anus or genital organs, esp as a result of syphilis
- conflated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflate.
- congealed — Simple past tense and past participle of congeal.
- coordinal — (of animals or plants) belonging to the same order
- crashland — Alternative form of crash-land.
- crinoidal — (zoology) Relating to, consisting of, or containing crinoids.
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- dalliance — If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously.
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- danceable — appropriate for or conducive to dancing: danceable music.
- dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- dandiacal — of the nature of a dandy, like a dandy
- day-clean — the time after first dawn when the sun begins to shine; clear daybreak
- de lancey — James, 1703–60, American jurist and politician in New York.
- decagonal — Shaped like a decagon.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- decennial — lasting for ten years
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- declinant — a person who is declining or diminishing in luck or wealth
- declinate — (esp of plant parts) descending from the horizontal in a curve; drooping
- demilance — A light lance; a short spear.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- descaling — Present participle of descale.
- 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
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- dictional — of or relating to diction
- dilatancy — dilating; expanding.
- divalence — the state of being divalent