9-letter words containing a, c, i, d, e
- deceasing — Present participle of decease.
- decennial — lasting for ten years
- decidable — able to be decided
- deciduate — having or characterized by a decidua.
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- decimally — by tens
- decimated — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- declaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaim.
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- declinant — a person who is declining or diminishing in luck or wealth
- declinate — (esp of plant parts) descending from the horizontal in a curve; drooping
- decmate i — (computer) The first in DEC's series of miniaturised PDP-8 computers based on the Intersil 6120 [Harris 6120?] microprocessor and dedicated to wordprocessing. The DECmate was DEC's original competition for the IBM PC. The DECmate I was introduced in 1980 as the successor to the WT78. The processor ran at 10 MHz, and was housed in a VT100 CRT terminal. It was a very limted model, no EAE option was available, memory was 32 Kwords. It used the RX02 8" dual floppy drive. Options were the DP278-A and -B communication ports and RL278: 1 to 4 RL02 cartridge disk drives.
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- dedicated — You use dedicated to describe someone who enjoys a particular activity very much and spends a lot of time doing it.
- dedicatee — a person to whom something is dedicated.
- dedicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dedicate.
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- deictical — Deictic.
- deistical — a person who believes in deism.
- 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)
- delicates — Underwear or lingerie.
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- demagogic — If you say that someone such as a politician is demagogic, you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- demiglace — A rich brown sauce used in French cuisine by itself or as a base for other sauces.
- demilance — A light lance; a short spear.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- descaling — Present participle of descale.
- desiccant — desiccating or drying
- desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate
- dessicate — Misspelling of desiccate.
- detaching — Present participle of detach.
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- deviances — deviant quality or state.
- diabetics — Plural form of diabetic.
- diacetate — (chemistry) Any salt or ester having two acetate groups.
- diaconate — the office, sacramental status, or period of office of a deacon
- diaeretic — dieresis.
- dialectal — of a dialect.
- dialectic — People refer to the dialectic or dialectics of a situation when they are referring to the way in which two very different forces or factors work together, and the way in which their differences are resolved.
- diallelic — Having two alleles.
- diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter
- dianetics — A discipline devised by w L. Ron Hubbard designed to heal psychosomatic illnesses by cleansing the mind of engrams.
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- diapyetic — of or pertaining to diapyesis