9-letter words containing c, l, a, d
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- cycloidal — Pertaining to or resembling a cycloid; or a circle.
- cytocidal — capable of killing cells.
- dactylics — Plural form of dactylic.
- dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
- dalliance — If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously.
- dalmatics — Plural form of dalmatic.
- daly city — city in W Calif.: suburb of San Francisco: pop. 104,000
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- danceable — appropriate for or conducive to dancing: danceable music.
- dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- dandiacal — of the nature of a dandy, like a dandy
- dapatical — (obsolete) sumptuous in cheer.
- day-clean — the time after first dawn when the sun begins to shine; clear daybreak
- de lancey — James, 1703–60, American jurist and politician in New York.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- decagonal — Shaped like a decagon.
- decalcify — to remove calcium or lime from (bones, teeth, etc)
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decalogue — Ten Commandments
- decapodal — (zoology) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- decayless — having no tendency to decay
- decennial — lasting for ten years
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- decidable — able to be decided
- decimally — by tens
- deck load — cargo carried on an open deck of a ship.
- declaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaim.
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- declassee — (of a woman) having lost social standing or status
- declinant — a person who is declining or diminishing in luck or wealth
- declinate — (esp of plant parts) descending from the horizontal in a curve; drooping
- decodable — Able to be read using a certain set of reading knowledge.
- decollate — to separate (continuous stationery, etc) into individual forms
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- deictical — Deictic.