8-letter words containing c, e, 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.
- backbend — a gymnastic exercise in which the trunk is bent backwards until the hands touch the floor
- backdate — If a document or an arrangement is backdated, it is valid from a date before the date when it is completed or signed.
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- backread — (Internet, slang, especially in IRC) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
- backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
- backveld — (in South Africa) a remote, sparsely populated, and often primitive area
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- bhc code — Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem Code
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- bleached — made lighter in colour
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- blotched — Something that is blotched has blotches on it.
- blue cod — a common marine spiny-finned food fish, Parapercis colias, of the sub-Antarctic waters of New Zealand, esp at the Chatham Islands, which is greenish blue with brown marbling and inhabits rocky bottoms. Its smoked flesh is considered a delicacy
- boadicea — Boudicca
- boldface — (of type) having this weight
- branched — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- breached — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- breeched — the lower, rear part of the trunk of the body; buttocks.
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- brocaded — fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
- bucketed — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- cabbaged — Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cadaster — an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes