9-letter words containing a, e, c, i
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- dedicated — You use dedicated to describe someone who enjoys a particular activity very much and spends a lot of time doing it.
- dedicatee — a person to whom something is dedicated.
- dedicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dedicate.
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- 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).
- demagogic — If you say that someone such as a politician is demagogic, you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- 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.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- descaling — Present participle of descale.
- desiccant — desiccating or drying
- desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate
- dessicate — Misspelling of desiccate.
- detaching — Present participle of detach.
- 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
- deviances — deviant quality or state.
- diabetics — Plural form of diabetic.
- diacetate — (chemistry) Any salt or ester having two acetate groups.
- diaconate — the office, sacramental status, or period of office of a deacon
- diaeretic — dieresis.
- 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.
- diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter
- dianetics — A discipline devised by w L. Ron Hubbard designed to heal psychosomatic illnesses by cleansing the mind of engrams.
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- diapyetic — of or pertaining to diapyesis
- diarrheic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of diarrhea.
- diastemic — a minor hiatus in an orderly succession of sedimentary rocks.
- diathetic — Pathology. a constitutional predisposition or tendency, as to a particular disease or other abnormal state of the body or mind.
- diazeutic — Alternative form of diazeuctic.
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dictature — dictatorship
- dietician — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- disaffect — to alienate the affection, sympathy, or support of; make discontented or disloyal: The dictator's policies had soon disaffected the people.
- discalced — (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.
- discarded — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discarder — One who, or that which, discards.
- discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discreate — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- disgraced — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.