9-letter words containing c, d, u
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- educatory — educative.
- educement — the action of educing
- eductions — Plural form of eduction.
- edumacate — (humorous) deliberate misspelling of educate.
- elucidate — Make (something) clear; explain.
- 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
- encrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of encrust.
- endurance — The fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way.
- epicedium — Dirge, lament, elegy.
- euclidean — (rare) alternative spelling of Euclidean.
- eunuchoid — Resembling a eunuch, typically in having reduced or indeterminate sexual characteristics.
- eutectoid — Relating to or denoting an alloy that has a minimum transformation temperature between a solid solution and a simple mixture of metals.
- evacuated — Having had population removed, by evacuation.
- excaudate — (zoology) Not caudate; without a cauda.
- excluders — Plural form of excluder.
- excluding — Not taking someone or something into account; apart from; except.
- facundity — (archaic) eloquence; readiness of speech.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- fecundate — to make prolific or fruitful.
- fecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- fish duck — merganser.
- fractured — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- fructidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the twelfth month of the year, extending from August 18 to September 16.
- fucked up — to have sexual intercourse with.
- fungicide — a substance or preparation, as a spray or dust, used for destroying fungi.
- glaucodot — a mineral, iron and cobalt sulfarsenide, (Co,Fe)AsS, occurring in grayish-white crystals.
- glucoside — any of an extensive group of compounds that yield glucose and some other substance or substances when treated with a dilute acid or decomposed by a ferment or enzyme.
- good luck — good fortune
- gourd cup — a metal cup of the 16th and 17th centuries having a gourd-shaped bowl mounted on a stem.
- grand cru — See under cru.
- gray duck — any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- 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.
- hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- hardcourt — relating to a type of tennis court that is made of hard material
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- hiccupped — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- impudence — the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
- including — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- incrusted — Alternative spelling of encrusted.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- inducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- inducibly — In an inducible manner.