9-letter words containing c, r, e, d
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crosstied — secured with crossties
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crowdedly — In a crowded manner.
- crucified — Simple past tense and past participle of crucify.
- crude oil — Crude oil is oil in its natural state before it has been processed or refined.
- crudeness — in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
- crudities — the state or quality of being crude.
- crusaders — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- cullender — colander
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- curandera — (in Hispanic America) a female healer or shaman
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- curbsides — Plural form of curbside.
- curlicued — Simple past tense and past participle of curlicue.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
- curvetted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- custodier — a custodian
- cybercrud — (jargon) /si:'ber-kruhd/ 1. (Coined by Ted Nelson) Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in e-mail. First there were the "Received" headers that show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This stuff all has a purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- cylinders — Plural form of cylinder.
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decagrams — Plural form of decagram.
- decahedra — plural form of singular decahedron: solid figure with ten plane faces
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decameric — Of or pertaining to a decamer.
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- decameter — dekameter
- decametre — ten metres
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decastere — a measure equivalent to ten steres or cubic metres
- deceivers — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
- deceleron — (on a fixed-wing aircraft) a type of aileron that enables the aircraft to have a degree of control when it goes into a roll
- decemviri — Plural form of decemvir.
- decemvirs — a member of a permanent board or a special commission of ten members in ancient Rome, especially the commission that drew up Rome's first code of law.
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- decenters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decenter.
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.