8-letter words containing d, o, c, t
- coextend — to extend or cause to extend equally in space or time
- cold cut — Usually, cold cuts. slices of unheated salami, bologna, ham, liverwurst, turkey, or other meats and sometimes cheeses.
- collated — to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheets of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc.).
- colleted — a collar or enclosing band.
- colletid — (zoology) Any member of the Colletidae.
- coltwood — a plant mentioned in Spenser's Faerie Queene, perhaps having a hairy stalk
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- comedist — a writer of comedies.
- commuted — to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
- competed — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- computed — Calculate or reckon (a figure or amount).
- conducts — Plural form of conduct.
- conduits — Plural form of conduit.
- confuted — Simple past tense and past participle of confute.
- connoted — to signify or suggest (certain meanings, ideas, etc.) in addition to the explicit or primary meaning: The word “fireplace” often connotes hospitality, warm comfort, etc.
- conodont — any of various small Palaeozoic toothlike fossils derived from an extinct eel-like marine animal
- contends — to struggle in opposition: to contend with the enemy for control of the port.
- contused — Simple past tense and past participle of contuse.
- copyedit — to edit (a manuscript, document, text, etc.) for publication, especially for punctuation, spelling, grammatical structure, style, etc.
- cornuted — having horns
- corseted — A woman who is corseted is wearing a corset.
- cortland — a variety of large, dark-red apple
- cosseted — pampered; spoilt
- costards — Plural form of costard.
- costumed — Simple past tense and past participle of costume.
- cotingid — (zoology) Any member of the Cotingidae.
- cotswold — a breed of sheep with long wool that originated in the Cotswolds. It is believed to be one of the oldest breeds in the world
- cottered — Simple past tense and past participle of cotter.
- cottoned — Simple past tense and past participle of cotton.
- cotyloid — shaped like a cup
- couldest — Alternative form of couldst.
- couldn't — Couldn't is the usual spoken form of 'could not'.
- creditor — Your creditors are the people who you owe money to.
- creodont — any of a group of extinct Tertiary mammals some of which are thought to have been the ancestors of modern carnivores: order Carnivora
- crotched — Having a crotch or fork; forked.
- cudworth — Ralph. 1617–88, English philosopher and theologian. His works include True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) and A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
- custodes — plural of custos.
- custodia — (rare) pyx (container for the host).
- customed — accustomed; inured
- cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- cut drop — a drop scene cut to reveal part of the upstage area.
- cynodont — a carnivorous mammal-like reptile of the late Permian and Triassic periods, whose specialized teeth were well developed
- d-notice — an official notice sent to newspapers, prohibiting the publication of certain security information
- dactylo- — finger or toe
- daltonic — color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish red from green.
- de dicto — relating to the expression of a belief, possibility, etc, rather than to the individuals mentioned, as in the number of the planets is the number of satellites of the sun, the truth of which is independent of what number that is
- de facto — De facto is used to indicate that something is a particular thing, even though it was not planned or intended to be that thing.
- deck out — If a person or thing is decked out with or in something, they are decorated with it or wearing it, usually for a special occasion.
- decocted — Simple past tense and past participle of decoct.
- decommit — to withdraw from a commitment or agreed course of action