9-letter words containing a, c, l, e
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- decayless — having no tendency to decay
- decennial — lasting for ten years
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- decidable — able to be decided
- decimally — by tens
- deck load — cargo carried on an open deck of a ship.
- 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.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- declassee — (of a woman) having lost social standing or status
- 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
- decodable — Able to be read using a certain set of reading knowledge.
- decollate — to separate (continuous stationery, etc) into individual forms
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- 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)
- delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)
- delectate — to delight (a person)
- delicates — Underwear or lingerie.
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- 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.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- descaling — Present participle of descale.
- 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
- 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.
- discalced — (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.
- 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.
- displaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of displace.
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- docetaxel — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- dodecanal — lauric aldehyde.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- 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.