9-letter words containing c, a, n, d
- knackered — exhausted; very tired: He is really knackered after work.
- 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.
- macedoine — a mixture of fruits or vegetables, often served as a salad.
- macedonia — Also, Macedon [mas-i-don] /ˈmæs ɪˌdɒn/ (Show IPA). an ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in S Europe: now a region in N Greece, SW Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia.
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- macrodont — the condition of having abnormally large teeth.
- main deck — the uppermost weatherproof deck, running the full length of a ship.
- man-child — a male child; boy; son.
- manducate — to chew; masticate; eat.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- maracanda — ancient name of Samarkand.
- marchland — borderland.
- medicinal — of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendicant — begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- mendicate — (ambitransitive) To beg.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- misandric — One who professes misandry; a hater of men.
- monacidic — having one replaceable hydrogen atom or hydroxyl radical.
- monadnock — Physical Geography. a residual hill or mountain standing well above the surface of a surrounding peneplain.
- monodical — Pertaining to monody.
- moonfaced — Alternative spelling of moon-faced.
- mordicant — Biting; acrid.
- 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.
- nancified — effeminate
- neckbands — Plural form of neckband.
- nectaried — having a nectary or nectaries
- nicknamed — Simple past tense and past participle of nickname.
- nicomedia — an ancient city in NW Asia Minor, at the head of the Gulf of Astacus, in present-day Turkey: modern Izmit is on its site.
- no can do — (a negative used to express dissent, denial, or refusal, as in response to a question or request)
- nonaddict — a person who is not an addict
- nondancer — a person who does not dance
- nonplaced — Not assigned a place.
- nonsacred — Not sacred.
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- nucleated — having a nucleus.
- ocean bed — the bottom of the ocean
- oceanside — a city in SW California.