9-letter words containing d, e, s, c
- childness — the nature or character of a child
- childrens — (intentionally incorrect, nonstandard) Plural form of child.
- chipheads — Plural form of chiphead.
- chiselled — If you say that someone, usually a man, has chiselled features, you mean that their face has a strong, clear bone structure.
- chlamydes — Plural form of chlamys.
- chlorides — Plural form of chloride.
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chordless — Lacking chords.
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cirripeds — Plural form of cirriped.
- cisgender — of or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds to their assigned birth gender
- cispadane — on this (the southern) side of the River Po, as viewed from Rome
- cissified — effeminate
- city desk — the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
- civilised — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- cliffside — The side of a cliff.
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- cloudless — If the sky is cloudless, there are no clouds in it.
- clustered — If people or things are clustered somewhere, there is a group of them close together there.
- coalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of coalesce.
- coarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of coarsen.
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- 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.
- codewords — Plural form of codeword.
- codfishes — Plural form of codfish.
- codifiers — Plural form of codifier.
- codpieces — Plural form of codpiece.
- coexisted — Simple past tense and past participle of coexist.
- coincides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coincide.
- 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 sore — Cold sores are small sore spots that sometimes appear on or near someone's lips and nose when they have a cold.
- coldhouse — an unheated greenhouse
- coldsleep — A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- colletids — Plural form of colletid.
- colliders — Plural form of collider.
- colonised — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
- comedians — Plural form of comedian.
- comedones — a thickened secretion plugging a duct of the skin, especially of a sebaceous gland; blackhead.
- comedowns — Plural form of comedown.