9-letter words containing a, c, e, r, t, d
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- decorator — A decorator is a person whose job is to paint houses or put wallpaper up.
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decurtate — Shortened, curtailed.
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- demarcate — If you demarcate something, you establish its boundaries or limits.
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- deprecate — If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
- descartes — René (rəne). 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician. He provided a mechanistic basis for the philosophical theory of dualism and is regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. He also founded analytical geometry and contributed greatly to the science of optics. His works include Discours de la méthode (1637), Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (1641), and Principia Philosophiae (1644)
- desecrate — If someone desecrates something which is considered to be holy or very special, they deliberately damage or insult it.
- detracted — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detracter — Alternative form of detractor.
- detractor — The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
- diaeretic — dieresis.
- diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter
- 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.
- dictature — dictatorship
- discreate — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- dixiecrat — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- doctorate — Doctor of Philosophy (def 1).
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- dratchell — a scruffy woman; a slut; a drab
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- educatory — educative.
- entranced — Held at attention, as if by magic.
- eradicant — something that eradicates
- eradicate — Destroy completely; put an end to.
- execrated — Simple past tense and past participle of execrate.
- extracted — Simple past tense and past participle of extract.
- fractured — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- increated — Simple past tense and past participle of increate.
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- lacerated — lacerated.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- macerated — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- matricide — the act of killing one's mother.
- motorcade — a procession or parade of automobiles or other motor vehicles.
- nectaried — having a nectary or nectaries
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- obcordate — heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end, as a leaf.
- octahedra — Plural form of octahedron.
- overacted — Simple past tense and past participle of overact.
- patricide — the act of killing one's own father.
- pediatric — the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.
- podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.