8-letter words containing c, l, a, d, o
- conidial — of or like conidia
- conoidal — Having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.
- cordelia — a feminine name
- cordials — Plural form of cordial.
- cornland — the type of land that is suitable for growing corn or grain
- cortland — a variety of large, dark-red apple
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
- courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
- cowardly — If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- crosland — Anthony. 1918–77, British Labour politician and socialist theorist, author of The Future of Socialism (1957)
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- cuboidal — Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- dactylo- — finger or toe
- dalcroze — Jaques-Dalcroze.
- daltonic — color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish red from green.
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
- decalogy — A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- diabolic — Diabolic is used to describe things that people think are caused by or belong to the Devil.
- diaconal — of or associated with a deacon or the diaconate
- dialogic — of, relating to, or characterized by dialogue.
- dockland — the land or area surrounding a commercial port.
- doctoral — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- dollface — a person having a smooth, unblemished complexion and small, regular features.
- ecocidal — the destruction of large areas of the natural environment by such activity as nuclear warfare, overexploitation of resources, or dumping of harmful chemicals.
- fecaloid — like or resembling feces.
- foldback — (in multitrack recording) a process for returning a signal to a performer instantly
- golconda — a ruined city in S India, near the modern city of Hyderabad: capital of a former Muslim kingdom; famous for its diamond cutting.
- headlock — a hold in which a wrestler locks an arm around the opponent's head.
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- ironclad — covered or cased with iron plates, as a ship for naval warfare; armor-plated.
- lacewood — the quartersawed wood of the sycamore tree.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- landlock — (transitive) To enclose or nearly enclose (a harbour, vessel, etc.) with land.
- laodicea — ancient name of Latakia.
- luchador — A person who competes in lucha libre wrestling.
- mcdonald — David John, 1902–79, U.S. labor leader: president of the United Steelworkers of America 1952–65.
- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- mucoidal — Of or pertaining to mucus; mucoid.
- odically — In terms of the hypothetical force called od.
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- old face — a type style that originated in the 18th century, characterized by little contrast between thick and thin strokes
- overclad — wearing too many clothes
- ovicidal — a substance or preparation, especially an insecticide, capable of killing egg cells.
- polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
- polyclad — any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.