8-letter words containing e, d, i, c
- cameloid — a member of the camel family
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- canidate — Eye dialect of candidate.
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- capsized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsize.
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- caudaite — a small meteorite, generally less than one half millimeter in diameter, containing crystals of more or less pure magnetite.
- caudicle — the stalk to which an orchid's pollen masses are attached
- cavilled — Simple past tense and past participle of cavil.
- cavitied — Having cavities.
- cd drive — a device that plays CDs
- cd tilde — /C-D til-d*/ To go home. From the Unix C shell and Korn-shell command "cd ~", which takes one to one's "$HOME" directory. "cd" with no arguments does the same thing.
- cd-video — a compact-disc player that, when connected to a television and hi-fi, produces high-quality stereo sound and synchronized pictures from a disc resembling a large compact audio disc
- cedillas — Plural form of cedilla.
- ceilidhs — Plural form of ceilidh.
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- centiped — Archaic form of centipede.
- centroid — the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
- ceramide — any of a class of biologically important compounds used as moisturizers in skin-care preparations
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- cercopid — any small leaping herbivorous homopterous insect of the family Cercopidae; a froghopper
- chaliced — (of plants) having cup-shaped flowers
- charidee — a jocular spelling of charity, as pronounced in a mid-Atlantic accent
- cheddite — an explosive made by mixing a powdered chlorate or perchlorate with a fatty substance, such as castor oil
- cheliped — (of an arthropod) either of two legs which each carry a claw
- chicaned — Simple past tense and past participle of chicane.
- chiefdom — a graded social group led by a chief whose position the chief usually accedes to
- childbed — the condition of giving birth to a child
- childern — Eye dialect of children.
- childers — (Robert) Erskine. 1870–1922, Irish politician, executed by the Irish Free State for his IRA activities: author of the spy story The Riddle of the Sands (1903)
- children — Children is the plural of child.
- chimerid — any fish of the genus Chimaera
- chiphead — (slang) A microchip expert.
- chiseled — If you say that someone, usually a man, has chiseled features, you mean that their face has a strong, clear bone structure.
- chivvied — Simple past tense and past participle of chivvy.
- chloride — Chloride is a chemical compound of chlorine and another substance.
- choreoid — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- chromide — any fish of the family Cichlidae
- chuddies — underpants
- ciderkin — a weak type of cider
- ciliated — possessing or relating to cilia
- cindered — Simple past tense and past participle of cinder.
- ciphered — Put (a message) into secret writing; encode.
- cirriped — any of a class (Cirripedia) of saltwater crustaceans that are attached or parasitic as adults, including the barnacles and the rhizocephalans
- citadels — Plural form of citadel.
- citified — having the customs, manners, or dress of city people
- citrated — treated with a citrate
- cityfied — made into a city.