9-letter words containing d, e, a, c, o
- congealed — Simple past tense and past participle of congeal.
- consarned — confounded; damned.
- contacted — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- contained — kept from going beyond certain limits; confined
- copulated — Simple past tense and past participle of copulate.
- copy-read — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- cordately — In a cordate form.
- corelated — to correlate.
- coriander — Coriander is a plant with seeds that are used as a spice and leaves that are used as a herb.
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- coronated — having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
- corralled — an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
- costarred — Simple past tense and past participle of costar.
- cot death — Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- cottonade — a coarse fabric of cotton or mixed fibres, used for work clothes, etc
- coverdale — Miles. 1488–1568, the first translator of the complete Bible into English (1535)
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- cycadeoid — a member of an order of plants with woody stems and tough leaves that became extinct during the Cretaceous period
- dacoitage — (in India and Myanmar) a robbery by an armed gang or dacoit
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- 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.
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- deaconess — (in the early church and in some modern Churches) a female member of the laity with duties similar to those of a deacon
- dead code — (programming) (Or "infeasible path", "grunge") Any part of a program that can never be accessed because all calls to it have been removed, or because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else. The presence of dead code may reveal either logical errors due to alterations in the program or significant changes in the assumptions and environment of the program (see also software rot); a good compiler should report dead code so a maintainer can think about what it means. Sometimes it simply means that an *extremely* defensive programmer has inserted can't happen tests which really can't happen - yet. Synonym grunge.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- deadstock — the merchandise or commodities of a shop, etc, that is unsold and generating no income
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decagonal — Shaped like a decagon.
- decalogue — Ten Commandments
- 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
- decanoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of decanoic acid.
- 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
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- deck load — cargo carried on an open deck of a ship.
- decodable — Able to be read using a certain set of reading knowledge.
- decollate — to separate (continuous stationery, etc) into individual forms
- decorated — (often initial capital letter) of pertaining to, or characteristic of the English gothic architecture of the late 13th through the late 14th centuries, characterized by curvilinear tracery, elaborate ornamental sculpture and vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques.
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- decorator — A decorator is a person whose job is to paint houses or put wallpaper up.
- decoupage — the art or process of decorating a surface with shapes or illustrations cut from paper, card, etc
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.