8-letter words containing e, c, d
- crinkled — marked with crenellations
- crippled — physically incapacitated
- criseyde — Cressida
- 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
- crozzled — blackened or burnt at the edges
- crudites — Crudités are pieces of raw vegetable, often served before a meal.
- crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
- cruelled — Simple past tense and past participle of cruel.
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- crumpled — creased
- crunched — Simple past tense and past participle of crunch.
- crusaded — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
- crusades — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crutched — Simple past tense and past participle of crutch.
- ctenidia — any of various comblike or featherlike structures, as the row of stiff bristles on the legs of a psocid.
- ctenizid — a spider of the family Ctenizidae, comprising the trap-door spiders.
- cuckooed — Simple past tense and past participle of cuckoo.
- cuddlier — suitable for or inviting cuddling: a cuddly teddy bear.
- cudgeled — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cudgeler — One who beats with a cudgel.
- cudgerie — a large tropical rutaceous tree, Flindersia schottina, having light-coloured wood
- cudweeds — Plural form of cudweed.
- cue card — a card, unseen by the audience, carrying dialogue, lyrics, etc. as an aid to a television performer
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- 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
- cultured — If you describe someone as cultured, you mean that they have good manners, are well educated, and know a lot about the arts.
- cumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of cumber.
- cup-tied — (of a team) unable to play another fixture because of involvement in a cup tie
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- curetted — to scrape with a curette.
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- cursored — Simple past tense and past participle of cursor.
- curtsied — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- curveted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- custodes — plural of custos.
- customed — accustomed; inured
- cut dead — to snub completely
- cyanides — Plural form of cyanide.
- cyanosed — (pathology) Afflicted with cyanosis.
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- cyclized — to cause cyclization.
- cylinder — A cylinder is an object with flat circular ends and long straight sides.
- cyphered — Simple past tense and past participle of cypher.
- cytidine — a nucleoside formed by the condensation of cytosine and ribose
- d-notice — an official notice sent to newspapers, prohibiting the publication of certain security information