9-letter words containing e, c, d
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- critiqued — Simple past tense and past participle of critique.
- crocheted — made with a crochet hook
- crocketed — (architecture) Having a crocket.
- crocodile — A crocodile is a large reptile with a long body and strong jaws. Crocodiles live in rivers and eat meat.
- crookedly — not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
- croqueted — Simple past tense and past participle of croquet.
- crossbred — (of plants or animals) produced as a result of crossbreeding
- crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crosstied — secured with crossties
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crowdedly — In a crowded manner.
- crucified — Simple past tense and past participle of crucify.
- crude oil — Crude oil is oil in its natural state before it has been processed or refined.
- crudeness — in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
- crudities — the state or quality of being crude.
- crusaders — (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.
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- ctenidium — one of the comblike respiratory gills of molluscs
- cuckolded — the husband of an unfaithful wife.
- cuddlable — Able to be cuddled.
- cuddle up — If you cuddle up to someone, you sit or lie as near to them as possible.
- cudgeling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cudgelled — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- cullender — colander
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curandera — (in Hispanic America) a female healer or shaman
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- curbsides — Plural form of curbside.
- curlicued — Simple past tense and past participle of curlicue.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
- curvetted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- custodier — a custodian
- custodies — Plural form of custody.
- cutinized — Simple past tense and past participle of cutinize.
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
- cybercrud — (jargon) /si:'ber-kruhd/ 1. (Coined by Ted Nelson) Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in e-mail. First there were the "Received" headers that show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This stuff all has a purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.