8-letter words containing d, i, c, n
- cardigan — A cardigan is a knitted woollen sweater that you can fasten at the front with buttons or a zip.
- cardinal — A cardinal is a high-ranking priest in the Catholic church.
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- caudling — Present participle of caudle.
- cavitand — (chemistry) any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- centiped — Archaic form of centipede.
- centroid — the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
- chicaned — Simple past tense and past participle of chicane.
- chidings — Plural form of chiding.
- childern — Eye dialect of children.
- childing — bearing a child; pregnant
- children — Children is the plural of child.
- chindwin — a river in N Myanmar, rising in the Kumôn Range and flowing northwest then south to the Irrawaddy, of which it is the main tributary. Length: about 966 km (600 miles)
- choanoid — (anatomy) funnel-shaped; applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the eyeball in many reptiles and mammals.
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- chondrin — a resilient translucent bluish-white substance that forms the matrix of cartilage
- chording — the distribution of chords throughout a piece of harmony
- ciderkin — a weak type of cider
- cindered — Simple past tense and past participle of cinder.
- cladding — Cladding is a covering of tiles, wooden boards, or other material that is fixed to the outside of a building to protect it against bad weather or to make it look more attractive.
- clarinda — a female given name, form of Clara.
- claudine — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- clinched — Simple past tense and past participle of clinch.
- cliveden — a mansion in Buckinghamshire, on the N bank of the Thames near Maidenhead: formerly the home of Nancy Astor and the scene of gatherings of politicians and others (known as the Cliveden Set); now a hotel
- clorinda — a female given name.
- clouding — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- cnidaria — an alternative name for the invertebrate phylum Coelenterata, giving emphasis to the stinging structures as characteristic of the phylum.
- cnidocil — a hairlike sensory process projecting from the surface of a cnidoblast, believed to trigger the discharge of the nematocyst.
- coddling — Act in a sissifying way.
- codesign — to design jointly
- codlings — Plural form of codling.
- codomain — the set of values that a function is allowed to take
- coffined — Simple past tense and past participle of coffin.
- cognized — Simple past tense and past participle of cognize.
- coincide — If one event coincides with another, they happen at the same time.
- cojoined — Simple past tense and past participle of cojoin.
- combined — A combined effort or attack is made by two or more groups of people at the same time.
- comedian — A comedian is an entertainer whose job is to make people laugh, by telling jokes or funny stories.
- conchoid — a plane curve consisting of two branches situated about a line to which they are asymptotic, so that a line from a fixed point (the pole) intersecting both branches is of constant length between asymptote and either branch. Equation: (x – a)2(x2 + y2) = b2x2 where a is the distance between the pole and a vertical asymptote and b is the length of the constant segment
- conduits — Plural form of conduit.
- confided — Simple past tense and past participle of confide.
- confider — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confides — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confined — If something is confined to a particular place, it exists only in that place. If it is confined to a particular group, only members of that group have it.
- confixed — Simple past tense and past participle of confix.
- conicoid — a quadric, especially a hyperboloid, paraboloid, or ellipsoid.
- conidial — of or like conidia
- conidium — an asexual spore formed at the tip of a specialized hypha (conidiophore) in fungi such as Penicillium
- connived — Simple past tense and past participle of connive.