9-letter words containing c, n, d
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- discerned — Simple past tense and past participle of discern.
- discerner — to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
- discommon — (at Oxford and Cambridge) to prohibit (tradespeople or townspeople who have violated the regulations of the university) from dealing with the undergraduates.
- discounts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discount.
- disection — Misspelling of dissection.
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disjuncts — Plural form of disjunct.
- distanced — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distances — Plural form of distance.
- dithionic — of or derived from dithionic acid.
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- dividence — (obsolete, rare) Division.
- divorcing — Present participle of divorce.
- do nicely — If someone or something is doing nicely, they are being successful.
- docketing — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
- docklands — An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port.
- doctorand — a student working towards a doctorate
- doctoring — Present participle of doctor.
- doctrinal — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- dodecagon — a polygon having 12 angles and 12 sides.
- dodecanal — lauric aldehyde.
- dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- dominancy — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- dominical — of or relating to Jesus Christ as Lord.
- dominican — of or relating to the Dominican Republic.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- doorknock — (Australia, NZ) A campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
- doronicum — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes.
- douceness — the quality or characteristic of being douce
- down card — a card that is dealt and played face down, as in blackjack and stud poker.
- downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downcourt — to or into the opposite end of the court.
- downcycle — a downward course in the business cycle.
- downforce — a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- downticks — Plural form of downtick.
- draconian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Athenian statesman Draco, or his severe code of laws.
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- drenching — to wet thoroughly; soak.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dubitancy — doubt; uncertainty
- duck pond — a pond for ducks
- ducklings — Plural form of duckling.
- dulcianas — Plural form of dulciana.