9-letter words containing c, r, a, d, l, e
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- delacroix — (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1798–1863, French romantic painter whose use of colour and free composition influenced impressionism. His paintings of historical and contemporary scenes include The Massacre at Chios (1824)
- delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- dratchell — a scruffy woman; a slut; a drab
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- eldercare — Care of people who are elderly or infirm, provided by residential institutions, by paid daily help in the home, or by family members.
- escalader — A soldier who escalades.
- esclandre — (archaic) Infamy.
- file card — a card of a size suitable for filing, typically 3 × 5 inches (7.62 × 12.7 cm) or 4 × 6 inches (10.16 × 15.24 cm).
- garlicked — flavoured with garlic
- glaciered — covered by, or coming from, glaciers
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- lace card — (Obsolete) A punched card with all holes punched (also called a "whoopee card" or "ventilator card"). Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism. Card punches could also jam trying to produce these things owing to power-supply problems. When some practical joker fed a lace card through the reader, you needed to clear the jam with a "card knife" - which you used on the joker first.
- lacerated — lacerated.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- liar dice — a gambling game in which the throw of five dice by each player is concealed from the opponent and bluffing is permitted
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- marcelled — Simple past tense and past participle of marcel.
- parcelled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parchedly — in a parched manner
- pedicular — of or relating to lice.
- placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
- precaudal — in front of the tail or caudal vertebrae of an animal
- preplaced — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- reclassed — a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
- red chalk — a clayey ochre containing iron, used by painters
- red coral — any of several alcyonarian corals of the genus Corallium, as C. nobile, of the Mediterranean Sea, having a red or pink skeleton, used for jewelry.
- redeclare — to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms: to declare one's position in a controversy.
- regicidal — the killing of a king.
- scarsdale — a town in SE New York, N of New York City.
- schedular — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- scrabbled — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scuddaler — a leader of festivities
- trancedly — in a trancelike manner
- trauchled — to fatigue; tire; wear out.