9-letter words containing a, c, d, i
- diastolic — (of blood pressure) indicating the arterial pressure during the interval between heartbeats.
- diathetic — Pathology. a constitutional predisposition or tendency, as to a particular disease or other abnormal state of the body or mind.
- diatropic — the tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.
- diazeutic — Alternative form of diazeuctic.
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- dicacious — teasing and cheeky in the way one speaks
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort
- dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- dictating — to say or read (something) aloud for another person to transcribe or for a machine to record: to dictate some letters to a secretary.
- dictation — Dictation is the speaking or reading aloud of words for someone else to write down.
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.
- dictatory — dictatorial
- dictature — dictatorship
- dictional — of or relating to diction
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- didactics — the art or science of teaching
- didrachma — An Ancient Greek silver coin worth two drachmas.
- dietician — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- digastric — (of a muscle) having two bellies with an intermediate tendon.
- digraphic — Of or pertaining to a digraph.
- dilatancy — dilating; expanding.
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- diplomacy — the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
- diradical — an atom or molecule having two unpaired electrons.
- disaccord — to be out of accord; disagree.
- disaffect — to alienate the affection, sympathy, or support of; make discontented or disloyal: The dictator's policies had soon disaffected the people.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- discalced — (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.
- discarded — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discarder — One who, or that which, discards.
- discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- disclaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disclaim.
- disclimax — a stable community that has replaced the normal climax in a given area, owing to disturbance by humans or domestic animals.
- discoidal — Having the flat, circular shape of a disc or a quoit.
- discordia — the ancient Roman goddess of discord, identified with the Greek goddess Eris.
- discreate — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- disgraced — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- disgracer — One who disgraces.
- disgraces — Plural form of disgrace.
- dish rack — frame for drying dishes
- disk pack — a cylinder containing several magnetic disks that can be installed in or removed from a disk drive as a unit: used for data storage and retrieval.
- dislocate — to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
- displaced — lacking a home, country, etc.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.