9-letter words containing a, d, i, t
- defoliant — A defoliant is a chemical used on trees and plants to make all their leaves fall off. Defoliants are especially used in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- defoliate — To defoliate an area or the plants in it means to cause the leaves on the plants to fall off or be destroyed. This is done especially in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- degrative — (chemistry) of something causing a cell or organism to degrade.
- deictical — Deictic.
- deinstall — Uninstall.
- deisolate — to remove from isolation.
- deistical — a person who believes in deism.
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal
- delibrate — (obsolete) To strip off the bark; to peel.
- delicates — Underwear or lingerie.
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- deligated — Simple past tense and past participle of deligate.
- delignate — (rare, transitive) To clear or strip of wood.
- delineate — If you delineate something such as an idea or situation, you describe it or define it, often in a lot of detail.
- deliriant — involving or causing delirium.
- deltoidal — of or relating to a river delta.
- demantoid — a bright green variety of andradite garnet
- demential — severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- demigrate — (obsolete) To emigrate.
- demitasse — a small cup used to serve coffee, esp after a meal
- denialist — a person who refuses to accept something that is regarded as an established fact
- denigrate — If you denigrate someone or something, you criticize them unfairly or insult them.
- denitrate — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which a compound loses a nitro or nitrate group, nitrogen dioxide, or nitric acid
- dentalgia — Toothache.
- dentality — the quality given to spoken words by the use of teeth
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- dentalize — to change into or pronounce as a dental sound.
- dentation — the state or condition of being dentate
- deoxidant — an agent that deoxidizes.
- departing — to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today. The train departs at 10:52.
- depilated — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- depravity — Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
- derivated — Simple past tense and past participle of derivate.
- derivates — Plural form of derivate.
- dermatoid — resembling skin
- desalting — Present participle of desalt.
- desiccant — desiccating or drying
- desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate
- designate — When you designate someone as something, you formally choose them to do that particular job.
- dessicate — Misspelling of desiccate.
- destained — Simple past tense and past participle of destain.
- destinate — To destine, to choose.
- detaching — Present participle of detach.
- detailers — Plural form of detailer.
- detailing — an individual or minute part; an item or particular.
- detainees — Plural form of detainee.
- detainers — Plural form of detainer.
- detaining — Present participle of detain.
- detrained — Simple past tense and past participle of detrain.