8-letter words containing c, d
- cadillac — something that is the most luxurious or highest quality of its kind
- cadinene — (organic compound) Any of a group of isomeric sesquiterpenes found in juniper essential oil.
- cadreman — an officer or enlisted person in a military cadre.
- caducean — relating to a caduceus
- caduceus — a staff entwined with two serpents and bearing a pair of wings at the top, carried by Hermes (Mercury) as messenger of the gods
- caducity — perishableness
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- caftaned — wearing a caftan
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
- calandra — A large Eurasian lark with a stout bill and a black patch on each side of the neck.
- calcined — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
- caldaria — Plural form of caldarium.
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- caldwell — Erskine (ˈɜːskɪn). 1903–87, US novelist whose works include Tobacco Road (1933)
- calendal — relating to the calends
- calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
- calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- calicoed — dressed in calico.
- calidity — warmth
- caliduct — a pipe or duct for conveying a heating medium, as hot air or steam.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calvados — a department of N France in the Basse-Normandie region. Capital: Caen. Pop: 659 893 (2003 est). Area: 5693 sq km (2198 sq miles)
- calycoid — resembling a calyx
- cambered — Having camber.
- cambodia — a country in SE Asia: became part of French Indochina in 1887; achieved self-government in 1949 and independence in 1953; civil war (1970–74) ended in victory for the Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Kampuchea (1975) and carried out extreme-radical political and economic reforms resulting in a considerable reduction of the population; Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and set up a pro-Vietnamese government who reverted (1981) to the name Cambodia; after Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 a peace settlement with exiled factions was followed in 1993 by the adoption of a democratic monarchist constitution restoring Prince Sihanouk to the throne. The country contains the central plains of the Mekong River and the Cardamom Mountains in the SW. Official language: Khmer; French is also widely spoken. Currency: riel. Capital: Phnom Penh. Pop: 15 205 539 (2013 est). Area: 181 000 sq km (69 895 sq miles)
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- cameloid — a member of the camel family
- camisado — (formerly) an attack made under cover of darkness
- camisard — any French Protestant, living in the region of the Cévennes Mountains, who carried on a revolt against Louis XIV in the early part of the 18th century.
- camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- canadarm — a type of robotic arm, developed in Canada, used on space vehicles
- canadian — Canadian means belonging or relating to Canada, or to its people or culture.
- canceled — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cancered — affected by cancer
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- candelas — Plural form of candela.
- candidal — relating to candida
- candidly — frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic.
- candling — a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- candyass — a timid or cowardly person; sissy.
- candying — any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
- candyman — a drug-dealer, esp one who targets young people
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- canidate — Eye dialect of candidate.
- cankered — (esp of fruit trees) affected by canker