8-letter words containing u, d, c
- clued-up — If you say that someone is clued-up on a particular subject, you are showing your approval of the fact that they have a great deal of detailed knowledge and information about it.
- 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
- clutched — to hatch (chickens).
- coaldust — fine particles of coal
- coendure — to endure together
- coked-up — showing the effects of having taken cocaine
- cold cut — Usually, cold cuts. slices of unheated salami, bologna, ham, liverwurst, turkey, or other meats and sometimes cheeses.
- colluded — Simple past tense and past participle of collude.
- colluder — to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent.
- colludes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collude.
- coloured — Something that is coloured a particular colour is that colour.
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- columned — Having columns.
- commaund — Obsolete form of command.
- commodus — Lucius Aelius Aurelius (ˈluːsɪəs ˈiːlɪəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs), son of Marcus Aurelius. 161–192 ad, Roman emperor (180–192), noted for his tyrannical reign
- communed — Simple past tense and past participle of commune.
- commuted — to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
- compound — A compound is an enclosed area of land that is used for a particular purpose.
- computed — Calculate or reckon (a figure or amount).
- conclude — If you conclude that something is true, you decide that it is true using the facts you know as a basis.
- conduced — Simple past tense and past participle of conduce.
- conducer — to lead or contribute to a result (usually followed by to or toward): qualities that conduce to success.
- conduces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conduce.
- conducts — Plural form of conduct.
- conduits — Plural form of conduit.
- confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
- confused — If you are confused, you do not know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- confuted — Simple past tense and past participle of confute.
- conidium — an asexual spore formed at the tip of a specialized hypha (conidiophore) in fungi such as Penicillium
- conjured — Simple past tense and past participle of conjure.
- consumed — If you are consumed with a feeling or idea, it affects you very strongly indeed.
- contused — Simple past tense and past participle of contuse.
- corduroy — Corduroy is thick cotton cloth with parallel raised lines on the outside.
- cornuted — having horns
- corundum — a white, grey, blue, green, red, yellow, or brown mineral, found in metamorphosed shales and limestones, in veins, and in some igneous rocks. It is used as an abrasive and as gemstone; the red variety is ruby, the blue is sapphire. Composition: aluminium oxide. Formula: Al2O3. Crystal structure: hexagonal (rhombohedral)
- costumed — Simple past tense and past participle of costume.
- could be — It's possible
- could've — Could've is the usual spoken form of 'could have', when 'have' is an auxiliary verb.
- couldest — Alternative form of couldst.
- couldn't — Couldn't is the usual spoken form of 'could not'.
- coumadin — Synonym of warfarin.
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
- cournand — André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- cow dung — cow manure
- crouched — to stoop or bend low.
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly