9-letter words containing c, o, d, a
- androsace — any plant of the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having basal leaves and white or reddish flowers.
- anecdotal — Anecdotal evidence is based on individual accounts, rather than on reliable research or statistics, and so may not be valid.
- anecdotes — a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.
- anecdotic — anecdotal
- anecdoton — (Grecian) alternative spelling of anecdote.
- anecdotum — (rare, Latinate) alternative spelling of anecdote.
- anhedonic — unable to feel or experience pleasure
- announced — Simple past tense and past participle of announce.
- anticodon — a three-base unit of genetic code contained in transfer RNA that corresponds to a codon region on messenger RNA, involved in genetic translation
- aperiodic — not periodic; not occurring at regular intervals
- apodictic — that can clearly be shown or proved; absolutely certain or necessarily true
- arachnoid — the middle of the three membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord
- arcsecond — unit used in astronomy
- area code — The area code for a particular city or region is the series of numbers that you have to dial before someone's personal number if you are making a telephone call to that place from a different area.
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- audacious — Someone who is audacious takes risks in order to achieve something.
- autocidal — (of insect pest control) effected by the introduction of sterile or genetically altered individuals into the wild population
- autocoder — (language) Possibly the first primitive compiler. AUTOCODER was written by Alick E. Glennie in 1952. It translated symbolic statements into machine language for the Manchester Mark I computer. Autocoding later came to be a generic term for assembly language programming.
- avocadoes — Alternative spelling of avocados Plural form of avocado.
- avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
- azoic dye — any of a group of brilliant, long-lasting azo dyes, formed on the fiber by coupling diazotized materials, used chiefly for printing on cotton.
- back door — a door at the rear or side of a building
- back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
- back road — A back road is a small country road with very little traffic.
- back-door — secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.
- back-load — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- backboard — In basketball, the backboard is the flat board above each of the baskets.
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
- backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
- backorder — Commerce. an order or part of an order waiting to be filled.
- backroads — Plural form of backroad.
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backwoods — If you refer to an area as the backwoods, you mean that it is a long way from large towns and is isolated from modern life.
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- bandicoot — any agile terrestrial marsupial of the family Peramelidae of Australia and New Guinea. They have a long pointed muzzle and a long tail and feed mainly on small invertebrates
- bar chord — a musical chord that is played on a stringed instrument using the barré technique.
- baracaldo — city in The Basque Country, N Spain: pop. 105,000
- barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
- barricado — a barricade.
- bezoardic — relating to bezoar
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- black dog — depression or melancholy
- black rod — (in Britain) an officer of the House of Lords and of the Order of the Garter, whose main duty is summoning the Commons at the opening and proroguing of Parliament
- blackbody — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber