8-letter words containing u, d, o
- 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
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- cuboidal — Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
- cuckolds — Plural form of cuckold.
- cuckooed — Simple past tense and past participle of cuckoo.
- cudworth — Ralph. 1617–88, English philosopher and theologian. His works include True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) and A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
- culloden — a moor near Inverness in N Scotland: site of a battle in 1746 in which government troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobites under Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cursored — Simple past tense and past participle of cursor.
- cuspidor — spittoon
- cussword — a swearword
- custodes — plural of custos.
- custodia — (rare) pyx (container for the host).