9-letter words containing d, a
- acid rock — a type of rock music characterized by electronically amplified bizarre instrumental effects
- acid salt — a salt formed by partial replacement of the acidic hydrogen atoms of the parent acid
- acid soil — a soil that gives a pH reaction of below about 6, found esp in cool moist areas where soluble bases are leached away
- acid test — The acid test of something is an important aspect or result that it might have, which allows you to decide whether it is true or successful.
- acid trip — a psychedelic experience induced by ingesting the hallucinogen LSD.
- acid-fast — (of bacteria and tissues) resistant to decolorization by mineral acids after staining
- acid-head — a person who habitually takes the drug LSD.
- acidaemia — (medicine) a medical condition marked by an abnormally high concentration of hydrogen ions in a person's blood.
- acidaemic — Pertaining to, or afflicted with, acidaemia.
- acidified — Simple past tense and past participle of acidify.
- acidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acidify.
- acidities — Plural form of acidity.
- acidizing — Acidizing is the injection of acid into the reservoir rock to enlarge the pore spaces and increase the flow of oil.
- acidophil — (of cells or cell contents) easily stained by acid dyes
- acidulant — an acidulating substance.
- acidulate — to make slightly acid or sour
- acidulent — an acidulating substance.
- acidulous — rather sour
- acquitted — to relieve from a charge of fault or crime; declare not guilty: They acquitted him of the crime. The jury acquitted her, but I still think she's guilty.
- acridness — Bitterness or acerbity.
- acrodonts — Plural form of acrodont.
- acrodrome — (of the veins of a leaf) running parallel to the edges of the leaf and fusing at the tip
- acrodynia — (pathology) An epidemic disease of the skin characterized by increased sensibility of the soles and palms, with pricking sensations in them and rheumatoid pains in the hands and feet.
- acronymed — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- actinides — Plural form of actinide.
- actinopod — any protozoan of the phylum Actinopoda, such as a radiolarian or a heliozoan, having stiff radiating cytoplasmic projections
- activated — to make active; cause to function or act.
- ad agency — An ad agency is a company whose business is to create advertisements for other companies or organizations.
- ad damnum — a formal and specific claim by a plaintiff for damages.
- ad patres — dead.
- ad verbum — word for word; verbatim
- adam bede — a novel (1859) by George Eliot.
- adamantly — utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc.
- adamently — Misspelling of adamantly.
- adapazari — city in NW Turkey: pop. 152,000
- adaptable — If you describe a person or animal as adaptable, you mean that they are able to change their ideas or behaviour in order to deal with new situations.
- adaptably — In an adaptable manner.
- adaptions — the act of adapting.
- adaptogen — any of various natural substances used in herbal medicine to normalize and regulate the systems of the body
- add up to — If amounts add up to a particular total, they result in that total when they are put together.
- addendums — a thing to be added; an addition.
- adderwort — the bistort, a herbaceous flowering plant, Polygonum bistorta, of the dock family
- addicting — a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance: a drug addict.
- addiction — Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
- addictive — If a drug is addictive, people who take it cannot stop taking it.
- addington — Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth. 1757–1844, British statesman; prime minister (1801–04) and Home Secretary (1812–21)
- additions — Plural form of addition.
- additives — Plural form of additive.
- addlehead — (colloquial) A foolish or dull-witted person.
- addlement — a process or state of confusion