9-letter words containing c, a, d, e, t
- delicates — Underwear or lingerie.
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- demarcate — If you demarcate something, you establish its boundaries or limits.
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- depascent — Consuming.
- deprecate — If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
- descanted — Simple past tense and past participle of descant.
- descartes — René (rəne). 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician. He provided a mechanistic basis for the philosophical theory of dualism and is regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. He also founded analytical geometry and contributed greatly to the science of optics. His works include Discours de la méthode (1637), Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (1641), and Principia Philosophiae (1644)
- desecrate — If someone desecrates something which is considered to be holy or very special, they deliberately damage or insult it.
- 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.
- detracted — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detracter — Alternative form of detractor.
- detractor — The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- discreate — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- dislocate — to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
- distanced — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distances — Plural form of distance.
- dixiecrat — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- docetaxel — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- doctorate — Doctor of Philosophy (def 1).
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- dratchell — a scruffy woman; a slut; a drab
- duckwheat — India wheat.
- duct tape — a strongly adhesive silver-gray cloth tape, used in plumbing, household repairs, etc.
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- ecdysiast — stripper (def 3).
- edificant — Building; constructing.