8-letter words containing d, e, s, c
- contends — to struggle in opposition: to contend with the enemy for control of the port.
- contused — Simple past tense and past participle of contuse.
- copepods — Plural form of copepod.
- copydesk — desk where newspaper copy is edited
- cordless — A cordless telephone or piece of electric equipment is operated by a battery fitted inside it and is not connected to the electricity mains.
- corrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrade.
- corrodes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrode.
- corseted — A woman who is corseted is wearing a corset.
- cosigned — Simple past tense and past participle of cosign.
- cosseted — pampered; spoilt
- costumed — Simple past tense and past participle of costume.
- couldest — Alternative form of couldst.
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- cowherds — Plural form of cowherd.
- cowhides — Plural form of cowhide.
- cowsheds — Plural form of cowshed.
- cressida — (in medieval adaptations of the story of Troy) a woman who deserts her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek Diomedes
- criseyde — Cressida
- crudites — Crudités are pieces of raw vegetable, often served before a meal.
- crusaded — (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.
- crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
- crusades — (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.
- cudweeds — Plural form of cudweed.
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- cursored — Simple past tense and past participle of cursor.
- curtsied — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- custodes — plural of custos.
- customed — accustomed; inured
- cyanides — Plural form of cyanide.
- cyanosed — (pathology) Afflicted with cyanosis.
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- day case — a patient or case that comes into hospital for a surgical procedure and is dealt with and released in the course of one day
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- decagons — Plural form of decagon.
- decapods — Plural form of decapod.
- deceased — The deceased is used to refer to a particular person or to particular people who have recently died.
- deceases — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decease.
- deceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deceive.
- decibels — a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar.
- deciders — Plural form of decider.
- decidest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of decide.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
- decisive — If a fact, action, or event is decisive, it makes it certain that there will be a particular result.
- deckings — Plural form of decking.