9-letter words containing c, o, i, s
- custodies — Plural form of custody.
- customise — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customize — If you customize something, you change its appearance or features to suit your tastes or needs.
- cyphonism — An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.
- cystiform — resembling a cyst
- cystolith — a knoblike deposit of calcium carbonate in the epidermal cells of such plants as the stinging nettle
- cytokines — Plural form of cytokine.
- cytolysin — a substance that can partially or completely destroy animal cells
- cytolysis — the dissolution of cells, esp by the destruction of their membranes
- cytosolic — of or relating to a cytosol
- cytotaxis — movement of cells due to external stimulation
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- decession — a going away, lessening, or weakening
- deciduous — A deciduous tree or bush is one that loses its leaves in the autumn every year.
- decisions — A conclusion or resolution reached after consideration.
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- decodings — Plural form of decoding.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- diastolic — (of blood pressure) indicating the arterial pressure during the interval between heartbeats.
- dicacious — teasing and cheeky in the way one speaks
- dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dickinson — Emily. 1830–86, US poet, noted for her short, mostly unrhymed, mystical lyrics
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- dicrotism — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.
- diestocks — Plural form of diestock.
- diglossic — 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.
- dioecious — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- diopsidic — of, relating to, or belonging to diopside
- dioptrics — the branch of geometrical optics dealing with the formation of images by lenses.
- dioristic — defining
- directors — Plural form of director.
- disaccord — to be out of accord; disagree.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disciform — resembling the shape of a disc
- disclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of disclose.
- discloser — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- discloses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disclose.
- discoboli — Plural form of discobolus.
- discoidal — Having the flat, circular shape of a disc or a quoit.
- discology — the study of gramophone records
- discolors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discolor.
- discolour — Alternative spelling of discolor.