9-letter words containing c, u, s, e
- d-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- deciduous — A deciduous tree or bush is one that loses its leaves in the autumn every year.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- decouples — Separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.
- decourous — Misspelling of decorous.
- decubitis — (medical) Inflammations cause by a reclined position of the body; it often refers to the complications of bed-ridden patients such as bed sores.
- decubitus — the posture adopted when lying down
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- decus cpp — An almost-ANSI C preprocessor by Martin Minow. It is shipped with X11R5 (contrib/util/cpp) because some systems don't have a working cpp. It runs on VMS (Vax C, Decus C), RSX-11M, RSTS/E, P/OS, RT11, A/UX and Apollo Domain/IX 9.6 and is highly portable.
- decussate — to cross or cause to cross in the form of the letter X; intersect
- defocused — Simple past tense and past participle of defocus.
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- denounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denounce.
- deschutes — river in central and N Oreg., flowing from the Cascade Range north into the Columbia River: c. 250 mi (402 km)
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- destructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destruct.
- detumesce — (intransitive, of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
- deutscher — Isaac, 1907–1967, English journalist and author, born in Poland.
- dioecious — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- discluded — Simple past tense and past participle of disclude.
- 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.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- discussed — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- discusser — A person who discusses.
- discusses — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- diuretics — Plural form of diuretic.
- dock dues — payments made for the passing of goods through a dock
- documents — Plural form of document.
- douceness — the quality or characteristic of being douce
- duchesses — the wife or widow of a duke.
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- dudelsack — doodlesack.
- dulcifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dulcify.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- echovirus — any of numerous retroviruses of the picornavirus group, some harmless and others associated with various human disorders, as aseptic meningitis.
- ecumenics — the study of the Christian church in its aspect as a worldwide Christian community.
- ecumenism — ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement.
- ecumenist — ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement.
- educatees — Plural form of educatee.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- eductions — Plural form of eduction.
- egrecious — Misspelling of egregious.
- encaustic — (especially in painting and ceramics) using pigments mixed with hot wax that are burned in as an inlay.