9-letter words containing e, y, d
- by a head — by the length of the animal's head, as in horse racing
- by design — If something happens or is done by design, someone does it deliberately, rather than by accident.
- by-bidder — a bidder at an auction who bids up the price of an item for the benefit of a seller
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- byte-code — (file format, software) A binary file containing an executable program, consisting of a sequence of (op code, data) pairs. Byte-code op codes are most often fixed size bit patterns, but can be variable size. The data portion consists of zero or more bits whose format typically depends on the op code. A byte-code program is interpreted by a byte-code interpreter. The advantage of this technique compared with outputing machine code for some particular processor is that the same byte-code can be executed on any processor on which the byte-code interpreter runs. The byte-code may be compiled to machine code ("native code") for speed of execution but this usually requires significantly greater effort for each new taraget architecture than simply porting the interpreter. For example, Java is compiled to byte-code which runs on the Java Virtual Machine.
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- catalysed — to act upon by catalysis.
- catalyzed — to act upon by catalysis.
- cd player — A CD player is a machine on which you can play CDs.
- cell body — the compact area of a nerve cell that constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding the axons and dendrites.
- chandlery — the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
- cheat day — a day in which a person goes off a dietary regimen: Today’s my cheat day, so I’m eating pizza and ice cream.
- chimneyed — Containing chimneys, or a particular type or number of chimney.
- chlamydes — Plural form of chlamys.
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- 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.
- cleareyed — having clear eyes or vision
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- comradely — If you do something in a comradely way, you are being pleasant and friendly to other people.
- comradery — camaraderie or comradeship
- congo dye — any of certain azo dyes, derived mainly from benzidine
- copy desk — a desk where copy is edited
- copy-edit — to prepare (copy) for printing by styling, correcting, etc
- copy-read — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- copyedits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyedit.
- cordately — In a cordate form.
- cordyline — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cordyline that are native to eastern Asia, Australasia, and Polynesia
- cotyledon — a simple embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, which, in some species, forms the first green leaf after germination
- crazyweed — locoweed
- credibley — Misspelling of credibly.
- credulity — Credulity is a willingness to believe that something is real or true.
- crookedly — not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
- crowdedly — In a crowded manner.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
- 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.
- cycadeoid — a member of an order of plants with woody stems and tough leaves that became extinct during the Cretaceous period
- cylinders — Plural form of cylinder.
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- damselfly — any insect of the suborder Zygoptera similar to but smaller than dragonflies and usually resting with the wings closed over the back: order Odonata
- damyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- dark-eyed — (of a person) having dark eyes
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases