9-letter words containing c, a, n, d
- gasconade — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- grand cru — See under cru.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- hacendado — the owner of a hacienda.
- haciendas — Plural form of hacienda.
- hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
- hand back — return, give back
- hand hack — (jargon) 1. (Or "hand cruft") To Translate a hot spot of a program in a HLL into assembly language by hand, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See tune, bum. 2. More generally, manual construction or patching of data sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or modified by humans.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- handcarry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
- handcarts — Plural form of handcart.
- 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.
- handcraft — handicraft.
- handcuffs — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- handicaps — Plural form of handicap.
- handpiece — The part of a dental drill, surgical instrument, etc. that is held in the hand.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hat dance — a Mexican folk dance in which the man places his sombrero on the ground as an offer of love and the woman dances on the hat's brim and then places the hat on her head to indicate her acceptance of him.
- headcanon — (fandom slang) Elements and interpretations of a fictional universe accepted by an individual fan, but not found within or supported by the official canon.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- ice dance — any of a number of dances, mostly based on ballroom dancing, performed by a couple skating on ice
- 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.
- impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- in accord — agreeing
- inchanted — Simple past tense and past participle of inchant.
- increased — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increated — Simple past tense and past participle of increate.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- 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.
- indicated — to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show: His hesitation really indicates his doubt about the venture.
- indicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indicate.
- indicator — a person or thing that indicates.
- indochina — a peninsula in SE Asia, between the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea, comprising Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, W Malaysia, and Burma (Myanmar).
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- instanced — Simple past tense and past participle of instance.
- invocated — invoke.
- ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
- jacaranda — any of various tropical trees belonging to the genus Jacaranda, of the catalpa family, having showy clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- jaundiced — affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice: jaundiced skin.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- kickstand — a device for supporting a bicycle or motorcycle when not in use, pivoted to the rear axle in such a way that it can be kicked down below the rear wheel.