8-letter words containing c, d
- acidhead — a person who uses LSD
- acidness — Acidity, sourness.
- acidosis — a condition characterized by an abnormal increase in the acidity of the blood and extracellular fluids
- acidotic — a blood condition in which the bicarbonate concentration is below normal.
- aciduria — the condition of having acid in the urine, particularly at abnormally high levels
- aciduric — (of bacteria) capable of growth in an acid environment.
- acquired — obtained, through buying or being given
- acquited — Simple past tense and past participle of acquit.
- acridine — a colourless crystalline solid used in the manufacture of dyes. Formula: C13H9N
- acridity — sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose, etc.: acrid smoke from burning rubber.
- acrodont — (of the teeth of some reptiles) having no roots and being fused at the base to the margin of the jawbones
- actinide — a member of the actinide series
- actinoid — having a radiate form, as a sea anemone or starfish
- actioned — Simple past tense and past participle of action.
- actuated — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- acylated — to introduce the acyl group into (a compound).
- adamance — a state of resoluteness
- adamancy — a state of resoluteness
- addicted — Someone who is addicted to a harmful drug cannot stop taking it.
- adducent — that adducts
- adducing — Present participle of adduce.
- adducted — Physiology. to move or draw toward the axis of the body or one of its parts (opposed to abduct).
- adductor — a muscle that adducts
- adequacy — Adequacy is the quality of being good enough or great enough in amount to be acceptable.
- adfected — (algebra, archaic, of an equation) Having different powers of the unknown quantity in its various terms.
- adjacent — If one thing is adjacent to another, the two things are next to each other.
- adjuncts — Plural form of adjunct.
- adriatic — of or relating to the Adriatic Sea, or to the inhabitants of its coast or islands
- adscript — a serf bound to the land which they work or occupy, and who can be bought or sold along with it
- aduncate — curved or hooked, as a parrot's beak
- aduncity — the quality of being hooked or curved inward
- advanced — An advanced system, method, or design is modern and has been developed from an earlier version of the same thing.
- advancer — a person or thing that advances.
- advances — personal overtures made in an attempt to become friendly, gain a favour, etc
- advected — Simple past tense and past participle of advect.
- advocaat — a liqueur having a raw egg base
- advocacy — Someone's advocacy of a particular action or plan is their act of recommending it publicly.
- advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
- adynamic — Not dynamic; without strength or vigor.
- aeacides — a patronymic for any of the descendants of Aeacus, as Achilles, Peleus, and Telamon.
- aecidial — relating to or resembling an aecidium
- aecidium — an aecium
- aedicula — aedicule.
- aedicule — an opening such as a door or a window, framed by columns on either side, and a pediment above
- aeroduct — an air duct
- affected — If you describe someone's behaviour as affected, you disapprove of the fact that they behave in an unnatural way that is intended to impress other people.
- air duct — a pipe or channel permitting air to travel through a system, building, or other structure, such as a mine
- alcaides — Plural form of alcaide.
- alcandre — the wife of Polybus who received Helen and Menelaus on their way home from Troy.
- alcidine — of, relating to, or belonging to the Alcidae, a family of sea birds including the auks, guillemots, puffins, and related forms