8-letter words containing c, e, d
- card-key — a small plastic card with magnetic coding that is read electronically when inserted into a scanner and used in place of a key to open locks, hotel doors, etc.
- cardcase — a small case for holding business cards
- cardenal — Ernesto (ˈɜːnɛstaʊ). born 1925, Nicaraguan poet, revolutionary, and Roman Catholic priest; an influential figure in the Sandinista movement
- cardenas — Lázaro (ˈlaθaro). 1895–1970, Mexican statesman and general; president of Mexico (1934–40)
- careened — Simple past tense and past participle of careen.
- careered — an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework: He sought a career as a lawyer.
- caressed — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- carolled — Simple past tense and past participle of carol.
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
- 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-eyed — having eyes resembling those of a cat.
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- catheads — Plural form of cathead.
- cathedra — a bishop's throne
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- 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.
- caudated — Having a tail, or a termination resembling a tail; caudate.
- caudicle — the stalk to which an orchid's pollen masses are attached
- 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.
- cavitied — Having cavities.
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- cayenned — sprinkled or seasoned with cayenne
- 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
- 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
- ceramide — any of a class of biologically important compounds used as moisturizers in skin-care preparations
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- cercopid — any small leaping herbivorous homopterous insect of the family Cercopidae; a froghopper