9-letter words containing d, e, s
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cassander — c354-297 b.c, king of Macedonia 301-297 (son of Antipater).
- cassonade — raw or unrefined sugar
- castaneda — Carlos, 1925–1998, U.S. anthropologist and writer, born in Peru.
- castrated — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- catalysed — to act upon by catalysis.
- catfished — Simple past tense and past participle of catfish.
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- cd single — a compact disk, usually three inches in diameter, containing one or two popular songs.
- celsitude — the position or stance of dignity or loftiness
- centroids — Plural form of centroid.
- ceramides — Plural form of ceramide.
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- chastened — subdued; humbled
- chastised — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- chastized — Simple past tense and past participle of chastize.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- cherished — clung to, esp when fulfilment is unlikely
- childless — Someone who is childless has no children.
- 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.