9-letter words containing d, o, n, c
- coordinal — (of animals or plants) belonging to the same order
- copy down — If you copy down something that someone has said or written, you write it down exactly.
- cordoning — Present participle of cordon.
- cordonnet — a thread or cord that is produced from coarse silk and is commonly used to outline embroidery and lacework, and for fringes
- cordyline — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cordyline that are native to eastern Asia, Australasia, and Polynesia
- coriander — Coriander is a plant with seeds that are used as a spice and leaves that are used as a herb.
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- cornfield — A cornfield is a field in which corn is being grown.
- cornified — Converted into horn; horny.
- cornrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of cornrow.
- coronated — having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
- coroneted — wearing a coronet
- corrading — Present participle of corrade.
- corroding — to eat or wear away gradually as if by gnawing, especially by chemical action.
- cottonade — a coarse fabric of cotton or mixed fibres, used for work clothes, etc
- cotyledon — a simple embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, which, in some species, forms the first green leaf after germination
- counseled — advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
- countdown — A countdown is the counting aloud of numbers in reverse order before something happens, especially before a spacecraft is launched.
- countered — in the wrong way; contrary to the right course; in the reverse or opposite direction.
- cowhiding — Present participle of cowhide.
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- creodonts — Plural form of creodont.
- crescendo — A crescendo is a noise that gets louder and louder. Some people also use crescendo to refer to the point when a noise is at its loudest.
- cretinoid — a person suffering from cretinism.
- crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
- crinoidal — (zoology) Relating to, consisting of, or containing crinoids.
- cropbound — (of poultry) having a congested crop
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crosswind — A crosswind is a strong wind that blows across the direction that vehicles, boats, or aircraft are travelling in, and that makes it difficult for them to keep moving steadily forward.
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cyprinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyprinoidea, a large suborder of teleost fishes including the cyprinids, characins, electric eels, and loaches
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- daycation — a day trip to a resort, hotel, etc that does not involve staying the night
- deaconess — (in the early church and in some modern Churches) a female member of the laity with duties similar to those of a deacon
- decagonal — Shaped like a decagon.
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- decanoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of decanoic acid.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- deceleron — (on a fixed-wing aircraft) a type of aileron that enables the aircraft to have a degree of control when it goes into a roll
- deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
- decession — a going away, lessening, or weakening
- decide on — If you decide on something or decide upon something, you choose it from two or more possibilities.