9-letter words containing e, c, d
- cindering — Present participle of cinder.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinquedea — an Italian short sword of the late 15th and early 16th centuries having a broad, tapering blade, often richly ornamented.
- circuited — Simple past tense and past participle of circuit.
- cirripede — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic
- cirripeds — Plural form of cirriped.
- cisgender — of or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds to their assigned birth gender
- cispadane — on this (the southern) side of the River Po, as viewed from Rome
- cissified — effeminate
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- city code — (in Britain) short for City Code on Takeovers and Mergers: a code laid down in 1968 (later modified) to control takeover bids and mergers
- city desk — the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
- city-bred — reared in a city.
- civilised — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- civilized — If you describe a society as civilized, you mean that it is advanced and has sensible laws and customs.
- clabbered — Simple past tense and past participle of clabber.
- clambered — an act or instance of clambering.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- clarified — Clarified butter has been made clear by being heated.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- clarthead — a slow-witted or stupid person
- clattered — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- claudette — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- cleareyed — having clear eyes or vision
- clearweed — a plant from the nettle family
- cleavaged — Having (a particular kind of) cleavage.
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- cleveland — a former county of NE England formed in 1974 from parts of E Durham and N Yorkshire; replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Hartlepool (Durham), Stockton-on-Tees (Durham), Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire) and Redcar and Cleveland (North Yorkshire)
- cliffside — The side of a cliff.
- clobbered — to paint over existing decoration on (a ceramic piece).
- clodpated — stupid
- clogdance — a folk dance characterized by heavy stamping steps, performed while wearing clogs
- clonidine — a medication primarily used to treat high blood pressure
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- clottered — Simple past tense and past participle of clotter.
- cloud ear — tree ear
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- cloudless — If the sky is cloudless, there are no clouds in it.
- cloudlike — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- club deal — a takeover bid in which several private-equity companies form a syndicate to acquire a target company
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- clustered — If people or things are clustered somewhere, there is a group of them close together there.
- cluttered — filled with things or people in an untidy way
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- co-driver — one of two drivers who take turns to drive a car, esp in a rally
- co-editor — a person who cooperates or collaborates as editor with another.