8-letter words containing c, d
- back end — autumn
- back-end — (programming) Any software performing either the final stage in a process, or a task not apparent to the user. A common usage is in a compiler. A compiler's back-end generates machine language and performs optimisations specific to the machine's architecture. The term can also be used in the context of network applications. E.g. "The back-end of the system handles socket protocols". Contrast front end.
- backband — a moulding used at the edges of a window casing
- backbend — a gymnastic exercise in which the trunk is bent backwards until the hands touch the floor
- backbond — a legal document qualifying the terms of a bond or explaining the purpose for which a bond has been granted
- backdate — If a document or an arrangement is backdated, it is valid from a date before the date when it is completed or signed.
- backdoor — You can use backdoor to describe an action or process if you disapprove of it because you think it has been done in a secret, indirect, or dishonest way.
- backdown — an act of retreating from a previously asserted position
- backdrop — A backdrop is a large piece of cloth, often with scenery painted on it, that is hung at the back of a stage while a play is being performed.
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- backhand — A backhand is a shot in tennis or squash, which you make with your arm across your body.
- backland — undeveloped land behind a developed property
- backload — a load carried by a lorry on a return journey
- backread — (Internet, slang, especially in IRC) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
- backroad — Alternative spelling of back road.
- backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
- backslid — Simple past tense and past participle of backslide.
- backveld — (in South Africa) a remote, sparsely populated, and often primitive area
- backward — A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. Some people use backwards for this meaning.
- backwind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- backwood — (often used with a singular verb) wooded or partially uncleared and unsettled districts.
- backword — the act or an instance of failing to keep a promise or commitment (esp in the phrase give (someone) backword)
- backyard — A backyard is an area of land at the back of a house.
- bad luck — You can say 'Bad luck', or 'Hard luck', to someone when you want to express sympathy to them.
- balanced — A balanced report, book, or other document takes into account all the different opinions on something and presents information in a fair and reasonable way.
- baldrick — a belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip, supporting a sword, horn, etc.
- baldrics — Plural form of baldric.
- balladic — relating to ballads
- bankcard — any plastic card issued by a bank, such as a cash card or cheque card
- bar code — A bar code is an arrangement of numbers and parallel lines that is printed on products to be sold in shops. The bar code can be read by computers.
- barcoded — having a barcode
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- batucada — A style of repetitive, fast-paced percussive samba.
- beaconed — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- beancurd — Alternative spelling of bean curd.
- becalmed — If a sailing ship is becalmed, it is unable to move because there is no wind.
- beckford — William. 1759–1844, English writer and dilettante; author of the oriental romance Vathek (1787)
- beckoned — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
- beclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becloud.
- becoward — to make cowardly, to make into a coward
- becudgel — to arm with a cudgel
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bedcover — a bedspread
- bedecked — If a place is bedecked with flags or other ornaments, these things have been hung up to decorate it.
- bedrench — to drench thoroughly; soak
- bedsocks — the type of socks worn in bed
- benedick — a newly married man
- benedict — Saint. ?480–?547 ad, Italian monk: founded the Benedictine order at Monte Cassino in Italy in about 540 ad. His Regula Monachorum became the basis of the rule of all Western Christian monastic orders. Feast day: July 11 or March 14
- berdache — a Native American transvestite
- beuncled — having many uncles