9-letter words containing d, e, a, c
- cleavaged — Having (a particular kind of) cleavage.
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- cleveland — a former county of NE England formed in 1974 from parts of E Durham and N Yorkshire; replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Hartlepool (Durham), Stockton-on-Tees (Durham), Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire) and Redcar and Cleveland (North Yorkshire)
- clodpated — stupid
- clogdance — a folk dance characterized by heavy stamping steps, performed while wearing clogs
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- cloud ear — tree ear
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- club deal — a takeover bid in which several private-equity companies form a syndicate to acquire a target company
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- coadunate — united; joined together
- coalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of coalesce.
- coalfield — A coalfield is a region where there is coal under the ground.
- coarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of coarsen.
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- cocreated — Simple past tense and past participle of cocreate.
- code flag — a flag forming part of a signal code.
- code name — A code name is a name used for someone or something in order to keep their identity secret.
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- code-name — to assign a code name to.
- codenamed — Simple past tense and past participle of codename.
- codenames — Plural form of codename.
- codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
- coeducate — Alternative spelling of co-educate.
- cofferdam — a watertight structure, usually of sheet piling, that encloses an area under water, pumped dry to enable construction work to be carried out. Below a certain depth a caisson is required
- cogitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cogitate.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobated — to distill again from the same or a similar substance, as by pouring a distilled liquid back upon the matter remaining in the vessel, or upon another mass of similar matter.
- cokeheads — Plural form of cokehead.
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold case — a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved
- cold meat — a form of meat that has been cooked and allowed to become cold
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- collonade — Alternative spelling of colonnade.
- colocated — Simple past tense and past participle of colocate.
- colonnade — A colonnade is a row of evenly-spaced columns.
- combatted — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- comedians — Plural form of comedian.
- comedical — of, relating to, or of the nature of comedy.
- commanded — to direct with specific authority or prerogative; order: The captain commanded his men to attack.
- commander — A commander is an officer in charge of a military operation or organization.
- commendam — the temporary holding of an ecclesiastical benefice
- commodate — (Scotland, legal) A gratuitous loan.
- compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- compander — a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus