9-letter words containing c, a, d, e, t
- deactuate — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- deadstick — To land an aircraft without power.
- deadstock — the merchandise or commodities of a shop, etc, that is unsold and generating no income
- death cap — a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva
- death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
- decadents — Plural form of decadent.
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decameter — dekameter
- decametre — ten metres
- decanoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of decanoic acid.
- decantate — having been repeated or sung again and again
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decanting — to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- 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
- decathect — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- decaudate — to take off the tail of (an animal)
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- deciduate — having or characterized by a decidua.
- decimated — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
- declinant — a person who is declining or diminishing in luck or wealth
- declinate — (esp of plant parts) descending from the horizontal in a curve; drooping
- decmate i — (computer) The first in DEC's series of miniaturised PDP-8 computers based on the Intersil 6120 [Harris 6120?] microprocessor and dedicated to wordprocessing. The DECmate was DEC's original competition for the IBM PC. The DECmate I was introduced in 1980 as the successor to the WT78. The processor ran at 10 MHz, and was housed in a VT100 CRT terminal. It was a very limted model, no EAE option was available, memory was 32 Kwords. It used the RX02 8" dual floppy drive. Options were the DP278-A and -B communication ports and RL278: 1 to 4 RL02 cartridge disk drives.
- decollate — to separate (continuous stationery, etc) into individual forms
- decorated — (often initial capital letter) of pertaining to, or characteristic of the English gothic architecture of the late 13th through the late 14th centuries, characterized by curvilinear tracery, elaborate ornamental sculpture and vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques.
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- decorator — A decorator is a person whose job is to paint houses or put wallpaper up.
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- decurtate — Shortened, curtailed.
- decussate — to cross or cause to cross in the form of the letter X; intersect
- 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.
- defaecate — Alt form defecate.
- defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- defecated — Simple past tense and past participle of defecate.
- defecates — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- deictical — Deictic.
- deistical — a person who believes in deism.
- delectate — to delight (a person)