8-letter words containing e, i, d
- brontide — a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- buddleia — any ornamental shrub of the genus Buddleia, esp B. davidii, which has long spikes of mauve flowers and is frequently visited by butterflies: family Buddleiaceae
- burbidge — (Eleanor) Margaret (Peachey) [pee-chee] /ˈpi tʃi/ (Show IPA), born 1919, U.S. astronomer, born in England.
- burnside — land along the side of a burn
- buskined — relating to tragic drama
- caddised — trimmed with caddis
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- cadinene — (organic compound) Any of a group of isomeric sesquiterpenes found in juniper essential oil.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- calcined — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
- calicoed — dressed in calico.
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- 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.