8-letter words containing c, d
- caryatid — a column, used to support an entablature, in the form of a draped female figure
- cascaded — a waterfall descending over a steep, rocky surface.
- cascades — a mountain range extending from N California to W Canada: highest peak, Mt. Rainier, 14,408 feet (4322 meters).
- caseated — Simple past tense and past participle of caseate.
- caseload — The caseload of someone such as a doctor, social worker, or lawyer is the number of cases that they have to deal with.
- castered — a person or thing that casts.
- cat door — a small door or flap in a larger door through which a cat can pass
- cat food — tinned food for cats
- cat-eyed — having eyes resembling those of a cat.
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- catheads — Plural form of cathead.
- cathedra — a bishop's throne
- cathodal — (biochemistry) Attracted towards a cathode.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathodic — pertaining to a cathode or phenomena in its vicinity.
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- caucused — U.S. Politics. a meeting of party leaders to select candidates, elect convention delegates, etc. a meeting of party members within a legislative body to select leaders and determine strategy. (often initial capital letter) a faction within a legislative body that pursues its interests through the legislative process: the Women's Caucus; the Black Caucus.
- caudaite — a small meteorite, generally less than one half millimeter in diameter, containing crystals of more or less pure magnetite.
- caudally — Anatomy, Zoology. of, at, or near the tail or the posterior end of the body.
- caudated — Having a tail, or a termination resembling a tail; caudate.
- caudicle — the stalk to which an orchid's pollen masses are attached
- caudillo — (in Spanish-speaking countries) a military or political leader
- caudling — Present participle of caudle.
- cauldron — A cauldron is a very large, round metal pot used for cooking over a fire. In stories and fairy tales, a cauldron is used by witches for their spells.
- caveated — Simple past tense and past participle of caveat.
- caverned — (poetic) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
- cavilled — Simple past tense and past participle of cavil.
- cavitand — (chemistry) any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.
- cavitied — Having cavities.
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- cayenned — sprinkled or seasoned with cayenne
- cb radio — a device that transmits and receives radio signals only within a designated band of frequencies. Compare Citizens Band.
- cd drive — a device that plays CDs
- cd tilde — /C-D til-d*/ To go home. From the Unix C shell and Korn-shell command "cd ~", which takes one to one's "$HOME" directory. "cd" with no arguments does the same thing.
- cd-video — a compact-disc player that, when connected to a television and hi-fi, produces high-quality stereo sound and synchronized pictures from a disc resembling a large compact audio disc
- cdc 6600 — (computer) A mainframe computer from Control Data Corporation, first delivered in 1964. It is generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, about three times faster than STRETCH. Its successor was the CDC 7600.
- cedillas — Plural form of cedilla.
- ceilidhs — Plural form of ceilidh.
- cellared — Simple past tense and past participle of cellar.
- cemented — any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- censored — Having had objectionable content removed.
- censured — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- censused — an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
- centered — If an industry or event is centered in a place, it takes place to the greatest extent there.
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- centiped — Archaic form of centipede.
- centrode — a locus produced by plotting the course of the instantaneous centre of two bodies in relative motion
- centroid — the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
- cephalad — towards the head or anterior part