8-letter words containing l, i, d, c
- 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)
- childing — bearing a child; pregnant
- childish — Childish means relating to or typical of a child.
- children — Children is the plural of child.
- chilidog — A hot dog made with chili con carne.
- chillada — a kind of fried patty
- chilopod — any arthropod of the class Chilopoda, which includes the centipedes
- chiseled — If you say that someone, usually a man, has chiseled features, you mean that their face has a strong, clear bone structure.
- chlodwig — German name of Clovis I.
- chloride — Chloride is a chemical compound of chlorine and another substance.
- cichlids — Plural form of cichlid.
- ciliated — possessing or relating to cilia
- citadels — Plural form of citadel.
- cladding — Cladding is a covering of tiles, wooden boards, or other material that is fixed to the outside of a building to protect it against bad weather or to make it look more attractive.
- cladists — Plural form of cladist.
- clarinda — a female given name, form of Clara.
- claudine — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- claudius — full name Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus. 10 bc–54 ad, Roman emperor (41–54); invaded Britain (43); poisoned by his fourth wife, Agrippina
- cleidoic — isolated from the environment, as certain eggs enclosed within a shell or membrane.
- clifford — a masculine name: dim. Cliff
- climaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of climax.
- clinched — Simple past tense and past participle of clinch.
- clip-fed — (of an automatic firearm) loaded from a cartridge clip
- cliveden — a mansion in Buckinghamshire, on the N bank of the Thames near Maidenhead: formerly the home of Nancy Astor and the scene of gatherings of politicians and others (known as the Cliveden Set); now a hotel
- cloddish — of, relating to, or resembling a clod or boor; doltish; stolid.
- clorinda — a female given name.
- clotilda — ?475–?545 ad, wife of Clovis I of the Franks, whom she converted (496) to Christianity
- cloudier — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
- cloudily — In a cloudy way.
- clouding — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- clupeids — Plural form of clupeid.
- clupeoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Isospondyli (or Clupeiformes), a large order of soft-finned fishes, including the herrings, salmon, and tarpon
- cnidocil — a hairlike sensory process projecting from the surface of a cnidoblast, believed to trigger the discharge of the nematocyst.
- coddling — Act in a sissifying way.
- codicils — Plural form of codicil.
- codlings — Plural form of codling.
- colletid — (zoology) Any member of the Colletidae.
- collided — to strike one another or one against the other with a forceful impact; come into violent contact; crash: The two cars collided with an ear-splitting crash.
- collider — a particle accelerator in which beams of particles are made to collide
- collides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collide.
- colloids — Plural form of colloid.
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- comedial — a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.
- compiled — to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
- complied — to act or be in accordance with wishes, requests, demands, requirements, conditions, etc.; agree (sometimes followed by with): They asked him to leave and he complied. She has complied with the requirements.
- conidial — of or like conidia
- conoidal — Having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.
- coolidge — (John) Calvin. 1872–1933, 30th president of the US (1923–29)
- cordelia — a feminine name