7-letter words containing c, a, n, d
- carding — the process of preparing the fibres of cotton, wool, etc, for spinning
- cardoon — a thistle-like S European plant, Cynara cardunculus, closely related to the artichoke, with spiny leaves, purple flowers, and a leafstalk that may be blanched and eaten: family Asteraceae (composites)
- celadon — a type of porcelain having a greyish-green glaze: mainly Chinese
- cernuda — Luis (lwiʃ). 1902–63, Spanish poet. His major work is the autobiographical Reality and Desire (1936–64)
- chadian — of or relating to the Republic of Chad, its inhabitants, or their language.
- chained — If you say that someone is chained to a person or a situation, you are emphasizing that there are reasons why they cannot leave that person or situation, even though you think they might like to.
- chanced — Simple past tense and past participle of chance.
- changde — a port in SE central China, in N Hunan province, near the mouth of the Yuan River: severely damaged by the Japanese in World War II. Pop: 1 483 000 (2005 est)
- changed — Simple past tense and past participle of change.
- chanted — Simple past tense and past participle of chant.
- chardin — Jean-Baptiste Siméon (ʒɑ̃batist simeɔ̃). 1699–1779, French still-life and genre painter, noted for his subtle use of scumbled colour
- chindia — China and India considered together in economic and strategic terms
- clanged — Simple past tense and past participle of clang.
- clanked — a sharp, hard, nonresonant sound, like that produced by two pieces of metal striking, one against the other: the clank of chains; the clank of an iron gate slamming shut.
- cleaned — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- cleland — John. 1709–89, British writer, best known for his bawdy novel Fanny Hill (1748–49)
- codeina — a white, crystalline, slightly bitter alkaloid, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , obtained from opium, used in medicine chiefly as an analgesic or sedative and to inhibit coughing.
- command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
- compand — to compress (a transmitter signal) before transmission and then expand it after transmission
- condela — Connection Definition Language
- congaed — Simple past tense and past participle of conga.
- conidia — (in fungi) an asexual spore formed by abstriction at the top of a hyphal branch.
- copland — Aaron. 1900–90, US composer of orchestral and chamber music, ballets, and film music
- cotland — the grounds that belonged to a cotter and which amounted to around 5 acres
- cowhand — a hired man who herds and tends cattle, usually on horseback, esp in the western US
- cranked — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- cyanide — Cyanide is a highly poisonous substance.
- d and c — dilation and curettage; a therapeutic or diagnostic procedure in obstetrics and gynaecology involving dilation of the cervix and curettage of the cavity of the uterus, as for abortion
- dacryon — the point of junction of the maxillary, lacrimal, and frontal bones.
- dancers — Plural form of dancer.
- dancing — When people dance for enjoyment or to entertain others, you can refer to this activity as dancing.
- deacons — Plural form of deacon.
- decagon — a polygon having ten sides
- decanal — of or relating to a dean or deanery
- decanes — Plural form of decane.
- decanol — a colorless liquid, C 10 H 22 O, insoluble in water and soluble in alcohol: used as a plasticizer, detergent, and in perfumes and flavorings.
- decants — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decant.
- deckman — A man who works on the deck of a ship.
- decuman — a huge wave
- descant — A descant is a tune which is played or sung above the main tune in a piece of music.
- diconal — a brand of dipanone, an opiate drug with potent analgesic properties: used to relieve severe pain
- dinaric — of or relating to the Alpine region of the Balkan Peninsula, from Slovenia to N Albania and extending across W Coatia, and most of Bosnia and Herzegovna, and Montenegro.
- discant — Also, discantus [dis-kan-tuh s] /dɪsˈkæn təs/ (Show IPA). Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.
- discman — a small portable CD player with light headphones
- dockman — A man who works on a dock.
- dontcha — Eye dialect of don't you.
- dracone — A large bag used to transport a petroleum product (especially unprocessed crude oil) by sea.
- dulcian — an organ-stop consisting of pipes made of reeds
- dunciad — a poem (1728–42) by Pope, satirizing various contemporary writers.
- durance — incarceration or imprisonment (often used in the phrase durance vile).