9-letter words containing ld
- caldecott — Randolph1846-86; Eng. artist & illustrator: illustrated many books for children
- canefield — A field where cane is grown.
- cauldrife — susceptible to cold; chilly
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- caulfield — Patrick (Joseph). 1936–2005, British painter and printmaker
- childcare — Childcare refers to looking after children, and to the facilities which help parents to do so.
- childfree — having no children; childless, especially by choice.
- childhood — A person's childhood is the period of their life when they are a child.
- childless — Someone who is childless has no children.
- childlike — You describe someone as childlike when they seem like a child in their character, appearance, or behaviour.
- childline — a telephone helpline for children in distress or danger
- childmind — To look after children while their parents are absent.
- childness — the nature or character of a child
- childrens — (intentionally incorrect, nonstandard) Plural form of child.
- childship — The state or relation of being a child.
- chokehold — the act of holding a person's neck across the windpipe, esp from behind using one arm
- coalfield — A coalfield is a region where there is coal under the ground.
- cold boot — (operating system) A boot from power off. Contrast warm boot.
- cold brew — the process of steeping coffee grounds or tea leaves in room-temperature or cold water for many hours, producing a concentrate to which more water may be added.
- cold call — If someone makes a cold call, they telephone or visit someone they have never contacted, without making an appointment, in order to try and sell something.
- cold case — a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved
- cold cash — money paid in full at the time of a business transaction
- cold cuts — Cold cuts are thin slices of cooked meat which are served cold.
- cold deck — a pack with the cards in prearranged order, secretly exchanged for the one in use; stacked deck.
- cold duck — an alcoholic beverage made from equal parts of burgundy and champagne
- cold feet — loss or lack of courage or confidence
- cold fish — If you say that someone is a cold fish, you think that they are unfriendly and unemotional.
- cold meat — a form of meat that has been cooked and allowed to become cold
- 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 room — a room that is used to chill or freeze foodstuffs
- cold shut — A cold shut is a fault in the surface of a piece of metal caused by two streams of molten metal not joining properly when the piece is being cast.
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- cold sore — Cold sores are small sore spots that sometimes appear on or near someone's lips and nose when they have a cold.
- cold spot — an area where house prices are stable and properties are slow to sell
- cold tone — a bluish or greenish tinge in a black-and-white print.
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- cold work — the craft of shaping metal without heat
- cold-brew — (of a drink such as tea or coffee) prepared by steeping in cold water
- cold-call — a visit or telephone call to a prospective customer without an appointment or a previous introduction.
- cold-cock — to strike so as to make unconscious
- cold-draw — to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) without preheating the metal.
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- cold-roll — to roll (metal) at a temperature below that at which recrystallization occurs.
- cold-weld — to join (two metal surfaces) without heat by forcing them together so that the oxide films are broken and adhesion occurs
- cold-work — to work (metal) at a temperature below that at which recrystallization occurs.
- coldblood — any heavy draught-horse
- coldhouse — an unheated greenhouse
- coldsleep — A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.