9-letter words containing a, d, e, s
- dead loss — a person, thing, or situation that is completely useless or unprofitable
- dead spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- dead-spot — Anatomy. a small area on the retina that is insensitive to light due to the interruption, where the optic nerve joins the retina, of the normal pattern of light-sensitive rods and cones.
- deadbeats — Plural form of deadbeat.
- deadfalls — Plural form of deadfall.
- deadheads — Plural form of deadhead.
- deadhouse — a mortuary
- deadliest — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlines — Plural form of deadline.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- deadstick — To land an aircraft without power.
- deadstock — the merchandise or commodities of a shop, etc, that is unsold and generating no income
- deadwoods — Plural form of deadwood.
- deamidase — an enzyme that releases the amido group from a compound.
- deaminase — an enzyme that breaks down and takes out the amino group from amino compounds
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- deaneries — Plural form of deanery.
- deathbeds — Plural form of deathbed.
- deathless — immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting
- deathsman — an executioner
- debarrass — to take from (a person) something that causes shame or embarrassment
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debt swap — A debt swap is a legal agreement where two people or companies exchange their debts, often where one has a fixed interest rate and one does not.
- debutants — Plural form of debutant.
- decadents — Plural form of decadent.
- decagrams — Plural form of decagram.
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- decastere — a measure equivalent to ten steres or cubic metres
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- decayless — having no tendency to decay
- deceaseds — no longer living; dead.
- deceasing — Present participle of decease.
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.
- declassee — (of a woman) having lost social standing or status
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- decreased — Simple past tense and past participle of decrease.
- decreases — Plural form of decrease.
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decussate — to cross or cause to cross in the form of the letter X; intersect
- dedicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dedicate.
- deergrass — a perennial cyperaceous plant, Trichophorum caespitosum, that grows in dense tufts in peat bogs of temperate regions
- defeasing — to defeat or annul (a contract, deed, etc.).
- defeatism — Defeatism is a way of thinking or talking which suggests that you expect to be unsuccessful.
- defeatist — A defeatist is someone who thinks or talks in a way that suggests that they expect to be unsuccessful.
- defecates — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
- deferrals — Plural form of deferral.
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.