9-letter words containing p, d, c
- chilopods — Plural form of chilopod.
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chipheads — Plural form of chiphead.
- chippered — to chirp or twitter.
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chirruped — Simple past tense and past participle of chirrup.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chop down — If you chop down a tree, you cut through its trunk with an axe so that it falls to the ground.
- choppered — Simple past tense and past participle of chopper.
- cirripede — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic
- cirripeds — Plural form of cirriped.
- cispadane — on this (the southern) side of the River Po, as viewed from Rome
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- clodpated — stupid
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- codevelop — to develop jointly
- codpieces — Plural form of codpiece.
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold pole — the location in the northern or southern hemisphere having the coldest annual mean temperature in that hemisphere.
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- cold spot — an area where house prices are stable and properties are slow to sell
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- coldsleep — A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- compacted — compressed as a result of physical pressure
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- compander — a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus
- companied — Simple past tense and past participle of company.
- compassed — Simple past tense and past participle of compass.
- compeered — an equal in rank, ability, accomplishment, etc.; peer; colleague.
- compelled — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
- compendia — a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
- completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- complexed — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- comported — Simple past tense and past participle of comport.
- composted — Simple past tense and past participle of compost.
- compounds — Plural form of compound.
- comprador — (formerly in China and some other Asian countries) a native agent of a foreign enterprise
- comprendo — (slang) do you understand?.
- comprised — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comprized — comprise.
- concepted — a general notion or idea; conception.
- conspired — Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.
- cooked up — to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.