9-letter words containing d, a, y, t
- damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
- dartingly — In a darting manner; rapidly.
- dastardly — If you describe an action as dastardly, you mean it is wicked and intended to hurt someone.
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- data type — type
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- day-trade — to buy and sell a listed security or commodity on the same day, usually on margin, for a quick profit.
- daycation — a day trip to a resort, hotel, etc that does not involve staying the night
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- death ray — an imaginary ray capable of killing
- debatably — in a debatable or disputable manner
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- defiantly — characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.
- definatly — Misspelling of definitely.
- dehydrate — When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it.
- delta ray — a particle, esp an electron, ejected from matter by ionizing radiation
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- demoparty — (demoscene) A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.
- dentality — the quality given to spoken words by the use of teeth
- depravity — Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
- deviatory — Tending to deviate.
- diabesity — Used to refer to a form of diabetes that typically develops in later life and is associated with being obese.
- dialysate — (in the process of dialysis) the fluid passing through the dialyser, used for drawing toxins out of the patient's blood stream
- dialyzate — the remaining, or colloidal, portion of a solution.
- diapyetic — of or pertaining to diapyesis
- diasystem — a linguistic system forming a common denominator for a group or set of dialects.
- diathermy — local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes
- diazotype — a print produced by the diazo process.
- 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.
- dictatory — dictatorial
- dietarily — of or relating to diet: a dietary cure.
- digitally — In a digital manner.
- dignitary — a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church.
- dihydrate — a hydrate that contains two molecules of water, as potassium sulfite, K 2 SO 3 ⋅2H 2 O.
- dilatably — in a dilatable manner
- dilatancy — dilating; expanding.
- dilatedly — In a dilated manner.
- dirty war — a war conducted by the military or secret police of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the regime's use of kidnapping, torture, and murder, with members of the civilian population often the victims.
- dismality — the quality of being dismal
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- dist atty — District Attorney
- distantly — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- ditionary — (obsolete) A subject; a tributary.
- ditty bag — a small bag used especially by sailors to hold sewing implements, toiletries, etc.
- doability — Feasibility; practicability.
- dogmatory — dogmatic
- doubtably — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- drip tray — a tray, sometimes with a slotted cover, designed to catch drips, as under a beer tap, sump, plant pot, etc