9-letter words containing c, i, d, a
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- liar dice — a gambling game in which the throw of five dice by each player is concealed from the opponent and bluffing is permitted
- lidocaine — a synthetic crystalline powder, C 14 H 22 N 2 O, used as a local anesthetic and also in the management of certain arrhythmias.
- localised — localisation
- localized — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- logaoedic — composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- ludically — in a ludic or playful manner
- macadamia — any Australian tree of the genus Macadamia, especially M. ternifolia, having whorled leaves and elongated clusters of pink flowers.
- macedoine — a mixture of fruits or vegetables, often served as a salad.
- macedonia — Also, Macedon [mas-i-don] /ˈmæs ɪˌdɒn/ (Show IPA). an ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in S Europe: now a region in N Greece, SW Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia.
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- main deck — the uppermost weatherproof deck, running the full length of a ship.
- maledicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maledict.
- man-child — a male child; boy; son.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- matricide — the act of killing one's mother.
- medicable — responsive to medical treatment; curable.
- medically — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- medicated — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- medicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of medicate.
- medicinal — of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendicant — begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
- mendicate — (ambitransitive) To beg.
- microcard — A small card bearing a microreproduction of text, resembling the microfiche format but on cardboard rather than photographic film.
- microdata — (statistics) data concerning individuals in a trial, survey etc.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- miracidia — the larva that hatches from the egg of a trematode worm or fluke.
- misadvice — to give bad or inappropriate advice to.
- misandric — One who professes misandry; a hater of men.
- miscalled — Simple past tense and past participle of miscall.
- mispacked — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- misplaced — to put in a wrong place.
- monacidic — having one replaceable hydrogen atom or hydroxyl radical.
- monodical — Pertaining to monody.
- mordacity — biting or given to biting.
- mordicant — Biting; acrid.
- mosaicked — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- mydriatic — pertaining to or producing mydriasis.
- myocardia — the muscular substance of the heart.
- nancified — effeminate
- nectaried — having a nectary or nectaries
- nicknamed — Simple past tense and past participle of nickname.
- nicomedia — an ancient city in NW Asia Minor, at the head of the Gulf of Astacus, in present-day Turkey: modern Izmit is on its site.
- nonaddict — a person who is not an addict
- oceanside — a city in SW California.
- octaploid — an organism that consists of eight groups or sets of chromosomes