9-letter words containing do
- chow down — If you chow down on something, you eat a large amount of it quickly and with enthusiasm.
- cladodial — resembling a cladode
- cladogram — a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a clade
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- cnidocils — Plural form of cnidocil.
- cnidocyst — a nematocyst.
- coach dog — Dalmatian
- come down — If the cost, level, or amount of something comes down, it becomes less than it was before.
- comedones — a thickened secretion plugging a duct of the skin, especially of a sebaceous gland; blackhead.
- comedowns — Plural form of comedown.
- commandos — Plural form of commando.
- commodore — A commodore is an officer of senior rank in the navy, especially the British Royal Navy.
- comprador — (formerly in China and some other Asian countries) a native agent of a foreign enterprise
- comprendo — (slang) do you understand?.
- condolent — expressing sympathy to a bereaved person
- condoling — to express sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief (usually followed by with): to condole with a friend whose father has died.
- condoning — Present participle of condone.
- condorcet — Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de. 1743–94, French philosopher and politician. His works include Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795)
- conodonts — Plural form of conodont.
- contadora — Contadora Group.
- cool down — If someone cools down or if you cool them down, they become less angry than they were.
- copy down — If you copy down something that someone has said or written, you write it down exactly.
- corcovado — a volcano in S Chile, in the Andes. Height: 2300 m (7546 ft)
- cordoning — Present participle of cordon.
- cordonnet — a thread or cord that is produced from coarse silk and is commonly used to outline embroidery and lacework, and for fringes
- cordotomy — a sugrical method of pain relief in which nerves in the spinal cord are cut
- corridors — Plural form of corridor.
- cotyledon — a simple embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, which, in some species, forms the first green leaf after germination
- countdown — A countdown is the counting aloud of numbers in reverse order before something happens, especially before a spacecraft is launched.
- coupledom — the state of living as a couple, esp when regarded as being interested in each other to the exclusion of the outside world
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- creodonts — Plural form of creodont.
- crescendo — A crescendo is a noise that gets louder and louder. Some people also use crescendo to refer to the point when a noise is at its loudest.
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cuckoldom — the state of being a cuckold
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- dado head — a rotary cutter composed of several sawlike blades side by side, for cutting dadoes in wood.
- dado rail — a moulding at about waist height on an interior wall, used for decoration and to protect the wall
- damp down — To damp down something such as a strong emotion, an argument, or a crisis means to make it calmer or less intense.
- deep down — If you know something deep down or deep down inside, you know that it is true, but you are not always conscious of it or willing to admit it to yourself.
- deodorant — Deodorant is a substance that you can use on your body to hide or prevent the smell of sweat.
- deodorise — Alternative spelling of deodorize.
- deodorize — If you deodorize something, you remove unpleasant smells from it.
- desperado — A desperado is someone who does illegal, violent things without worrying about the danger.
- devil dog — a dangerously aggressive dog
- dial down — to reduce or become reduced