8-letter words containing c, o, r, d, n
- courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
- cournand — André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- creodont — any of a group of extinct Tertiary mammals some of which are thought to have been the ancestors of modern carnivores: order Carnivora
- crinoids — Plural form of crinoid.
- 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)
- crowd in — If problems or thoughts crowd in on you, a lot of them happen to you or affect you at the same time, so that they occupy all your attention and make you feel unable to escape.
- crowding — a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people.
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- cry down — to belittle; disparage
- deaconry — the office or status of a deacon
- decurion — a local councillor
- discrown — to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
- doctrine — a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government: Catholic doctrines; the Monroe Doctrine.
- donicker — bathroom; toilet.
- dormancy — the state of being dormant.
- dornicks — Plural form of dornick.
- draconic — (often lowercase) Draconian.
- draconid — any of several unrelated meteor showers whose radiants are in the constellation Draco.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- endocarp — The innermost layer of the pericarp that surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- enforced — Caused by necessity or force ; compulsory.
- fricando — fricandeau.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- hydronic — of or relating to a heating system for a building in which the medium for carrying heat throughout the structure is circulating water, especially when the circulation is aided by a pump.
- in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
- indictor — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- ironclad — covered or cased with iron plates, as a ship for naval warfare; armor-plated.
- mordancy — the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
- necrosed — Simple past tense and past participle of necrose.
- net cord — a cord that passes along and supports the top of a tennis net
- nocardia — any of several filamentous or rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Nocardia, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals.
- notecard — A paper card on which notes are written, or which is intended for such use.
- orcadian — a native or inhabitant of Orkney
- ordnance — cannon or artillery.
- reckoned — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reconned — reconnaissance.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- richmond — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast: part of the historical South. 40,815 sq. mi. (105,710 sq. km). Capital: Richmond. Abbreviation: VA (for use with zip code), Va.
- rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- roncador — any of several types of fish found along the Pacific Coast of North America
- rondache — a small, round shield
- sardonic — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- seconder — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- tornadic — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).