9-letter words containing a, l, s
- desolator — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
- detailers — Plural form of detailer.
- devisable — (of property, esp realty) capable of being transferred by will
- dew snail — a slug
- dharmsala — an Indian hostel or rest-house, often built with religious purpose
- diabolism — activities designed to enlist the aid of devils, esp in witchcraft or sorcery
- diabolist — Theology. action aided or caused by the devil; sorcery; witchcraft. the character or condition of a devil. a doctrine concerning devils. a belief in or worship of devils.
- diaclasis — (medicine) Osteoclasis.
- diagonals — Plural form of diagonal.
- dialogism — a deduction with one premise and a disjunctive conclusion
- dialogist — a person who writes or takes part in a dialogue
- dialogues — Plural form of dialogue.
- dialysate — (in the process of dialysis) the fluid passing through the dialyser, used for drawing toxins out of the patient's blood stream
- diastolic — (of blood pressure) indicating the arterial pressure during the interval between heartbeats.
- digitalis — any plant belonging to the genus Digitalis, of the figwort family, especially the common foxglove, D. purpurea.
- diglossia — the widespread existence within a society of sharply divergent formal and informal varieties of a language each used in different social contexts or for performing different functions, as the existence of Katharevusa and Demotic in modern Greece.
- dihedrals — Plural form of dihedral.
- dilatants — Plural form of dilatant.
- dilations — Plural form of dilation.
- diplomats — Plural form of diplomat.
- disableds — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- disablers — Plural form of disabler.
- disabling — Present participle of disable.
- disablism — Ableism: discrimination against the disabled.
- disallows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disallow.
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- disbursal — The act of disbursing money.
- 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.
- disenable — to deprive of ability; make unable; prevent.
- disentail — to free (an estate) from entail.
- dishallow — to profane; desecrate.
- 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.
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- dismissal — an act or instance of dismissing.
- dispersal — The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.
- displaced — lacking a home, country, etc.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- displaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of displace.
- displayed — (of a bird) represented with wings and legs spread: an eagle displayed.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- displease — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
- disposals — Plural form of disposal.
- disproval — The act of disproving; disproof.
- dissocial — disinclined to or unsuitable for society; unsocial.
- 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.