9-letter words containing a, d, s, t
- dislocate — to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
- dismality — the quality of being dismal
- dismantle — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- dismasted — Simple past tense and past participle of dismast.
- dismutase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze dismutation reactions.
- disnature — to deprive (something) of its proper nature or appearance; make unnatural.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.
- disputant — a person who disputes; debater.
- disrating — Present participle of disrate.
- dissipate — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- dissonant — disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
- dissonate — (music) To be dissonant.
- dist atty — District Attorney
- distaffer — a woman, especially in a field or place usually or generally dominated by men: the first distaffer to have a seat on the stock exchange.
- distained — to discolor; stain; sully.
- distanced — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distances — Plural form of distance.
- distantly — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
- distasted — Simple past tense and past participle of distaste.
- distastes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distaste.
- distracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distract.
- distraint — the act of distraining; a distress.
- distraite — (of a woman) inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.
- disulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- dittanies — Plural form of dittany.
- dogmatics — the study of the arrangement and statement of religious doctrines, especially of the doctrines received in and taught by the Christian church.
- dogmatise — to make dogmatic assertions; speak or write dogmatically.
- dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
- dogmatist — a person who asserts his or her opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
- domainist — (jargon) /doh-mayn'ist/ 1. Said of a domain address (as opposed to a bang path) because the part to the right of the "@" specifies a nested series of "domains"; for example, [email protected] specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com. See also big-endian. 2. Said of a site, mailer or routing program which knows how to handle domainist addresses. 3. Said of a person (especially a site admin) who prefers domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer, or proselytises for domainist addressing and disdains bang paths. This term is now (1993) semi-obsolete, as most sites have converted.
- dominants — Plural form of dominant.
- dominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dominate.
- donations — Plural form of donation.
- donatives — Plural form of donative.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- doorstead — the structure of a doorway.
- dovetails — Plural form of dovetail.
- down east — New England.
- downbeats — Plural form of downbeat.
- downstage — at or toward the front of the stage.
- downstair — down the stairs.
- downstate — the southern part of a U.S. state.
- draftsman — draughtsman (def 1).
- draftsmen — (US) Plural form of draftsman.
- draglifts — Plural form of draglift.
- dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.
- dragsters — Plural form of dragster.
- dragstrip — a race course for drag racing