8-letter words containing d, o, c
- cournand — André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization
- 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.
- coverlid — coverlet
- cow dung — cow manure
- cowardly — If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
- cowardry — Lb uncommon Cowardice.
- cowbirds — Plural form of cowbird.
- cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
- cowherds — Plural form of cowherd.
- cowhides — Plural form of cowhide.
- cowsheds — Plural form of cowshed.
- crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
- crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- 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
- crinoids — Plural form of crinoid.
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- crosland — Anthony. 1918–77, British Labour politician and socialist theorist, author of The Future of Socialism (1957)
- crotched — Having a crotch or fork; forked.
- crouched — to stoop or bend low.
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- crowd in — If problems or thoughts crowd in on you, a lot of them happen to you or affect you at the same time, so that they occupy all your attention and make you feel unable to escape.
- crowding — a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people.
- crozzled — blackened or burnt at the edges
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- cry down — to belittle; disparage
- cuboidal — Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
- cuckolds — Plural form of cuckold.
- cuckooed — Simple past tense and past participle of cuckoo.
- 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)
- culloden — a moor near Inverness in N Scotland: site of a battle in 1746 in which government troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobites under Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cursored — Simple past tense and past participle of cursor.
- cuspidor — spittoon
- cussword — a swearword
- 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.
- cyanosed — (pathology) Afflicted with cyanosis.
- cycloids — Plural form of cycloid.
- 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
- dad rock — a type of classic rock music that tends to appeal to adults, often played by middle-aged musicians