9-letter words containing l, a, d, e
- 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)
- clodpated — stupid
- clogdance — a folk dance characterized by heavy stamping steps, performed while wearing clogs
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- cloud ear — tree ear
- 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.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- coalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of coalesce.
- coalfield — A coalfield is a region where there is coal under the ground.
- code flag — a flag forming part of a signal code.
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- cold case — a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved
- cold meat — a form of meat that has been cooked and allowed to become cold
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- collonade — Alternative spelling of colonnade.
- colocated — Simple past tense and past participle of colocate.
- colonnade — A colonnade is a row of evenly-spaced columns.
- comedical — of, relating to, or of the nature of comedy.
- comradely — If you do something in a comradely way, you are being pleasant and friendly to other people.
- concealed — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- conflated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflate.
- congealed — Simple past tense and past participle of congeal.
- copulated — Simple past tense and past participle of copulate.
- cordately — In a cordate form.
- corelated — to correlate.
- corralled — an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
- coverdale — Miles. 1488–1568, the first translator of the complete Bible into English (1535)
- creamlaid — (of laid paper) cream-coloured and of a ribbed appearance
- cuddlable — Able to be cuddled.
- 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.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.