9-letter words containing a, c, l, i
- decidable — able to be decided
- decimally — by tens
- 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
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- 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).
- 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
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- diaclasis — (medicine) Osteoclasis.
- 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.
- diallagic — consisting of, containing, or resembling diallage
- diallelic — Having two alleles.
- diastolic — (of blood pressure) indicating the arterial pressure during the interval between heartbeats.
- dictional — of or relating to diction
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- dilatancy — dilating; expanding.
- diplomacy — the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
- diradical — an atom or molecule having two unpaired electrons.
- discalced — (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.
- 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.
- 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.
- dissocial — disinclined to or unsuitable for society; unsocial.
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- doctorial — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- doctrinal — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
- domically — in the manner or shape of a dome
- dominical — of or relating to Jesus Christ as Lord.
- dropsical — of, like, or affected with dropsy.
- druidical — Alt form Druidical.
- dualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- ducktails — Plural form of ducktail.
- dulcianas — Plural form of dulciana.
- duplicand — the twofold increase of feu-duty for the period of a year, or the feu-duty paid, as occasioned at specific times