9-letter words containing c, i, d, e, r
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deer lick — a naturally or artificially salty area of ground where deer come to lick the salt
- deer tick — a tick that is parasitic on deer; esp., any of a genus (Ixodes) of ticks that transmit the spirochete causing Lyme disease
- 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)
- demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
- dendritic — formed or marked like a dendrite.
- depicture — (transitive) To make a picture of; to paint or depict.
- dereistic — autism.
- derelicts — Plural form of derelict.
- described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- describer — A person who describes.
- describes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of describe.
- descrying — Present participle of descry.
- diaeretic — dieresis.
- diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter
- diarrheic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of diarrhea.
- 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.
- dicentric — an abnormal chromosome with two centromeres
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dickering — Present participle of dicker.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dictature — dictatorship
- dimercury — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two mercury atoms in a molecule.
- directest — Superlative form of direct.
- directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
- directors — Plural form of director.
- directory — a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people.
- directrix — Geometry. a fixed line used in the description of a curve or surface.
- dirichlet — Peter Gustav Lejeune [pey-tuh r goo s-tahf luh-zhœn] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈgʊs tɑf ləˈʒœn/ (Show IPA), 1805–59, German mathematician.
- discarded — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discarder — One who, or that which, discards.
- discerned — Simple past tense and past participle of discern.
- discerner — to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
- discerped — Simple past tense and past participle of discerp.
- discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discloser — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- discoured — Simple past tense and past participle of discoure.
- discoures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discoure.
- discourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discovers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discover.
- discovert — (of a woman) not covert; not under the protection of a husband.
- discovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
- discreate — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discredit — to injure the credit or reputation of; defame: an effort to discredit honest politicians.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- discusser — A person who discusses.