9-letter words containing c, l, a, d, o
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- chalcedon — ancient Greek city on the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium: site of the 4th ecumenical council, a.d. 451
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- cladodial — resembling a cladode
- cladogram — a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a clade
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- clay road — an unsealed and unmetalled road in a rural area
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- clodpated — stupid
- clogdance — a folk dance characterized by heavy stamping steps, performed while wearing clogs
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- cloud ear — tree ear
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- cloudland — region of dreams, imagination, or impractical speculation; visionary realm
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- coachload — A coachload of people is a group of people who are travelling somewhere together in a coach.
- coalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of coalesce.
- coalfield — A coalfield is a region where there is coal under the ground.
- coastland — the land fringing a coast
- coccoidal — relating to a coccus
- code flag — a flag forming part of a signal code.
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold call — If someone makes a cold call, they telephone or visit someone they have never contacted, without making an appointment, in order to try and sell something.
- cold case — a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved
- cold cash — money paid in full at the time of a business transaction
- cold meat — a form of meat that has been cooked and allowed to become cold
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- cold-call — a visit or telephone call to a prospective customer without an appointment or a previous introduction.
- cold-draw — to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) without preheating the metal.
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- colloidal — of, denoting, or having the character of a colloid
- collonade — Alternative spelling of colonnade.
- colocated — Simple past tense and past participle of colocate.
- colombard — a white grape grown in France, California, and Australia, used for making wine
- colonnade — A colonnade is a row of evenly-spaced columns.
- coloradan — of Colorado
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- comedical — of, relating to, or of the nature of comedy.