9-letter words containing d, e, a, c
- dialectal — of a dialect.
- dialectic — People refer to the dialectic or dialectics of a situation when they are referring to the way in which two very different forces or factors work together, and the way in which their differences are resolved.
- diallelic — Having two alleles.
- diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter
- dianetics — A discipline devised by w L. Ron Hubbard designed to heal psychosomatic illnesses by cleansing the mind of engrams.
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- diapyetic — of or pertaining to diapyesis
- diarrheic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of diarrhea.
- diastemic — a minor hiatus in an orderly succession of sedimentary rocks.
- diathetic — Pathology. a constitutional predisposition or tendency, as to a particular disease or other abnormal state of the body or mind.
- diazeutic — Alternative form of diazeuctic.
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- 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.
- dictature — dictatorship
- dietician — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- disaffect — to alienate the affection, sympathy, or support of; make discontented or disloyal: The dictator's policies had soon disaffected the people.
- discalced — (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.
- discarded — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discarder — One who, or that which, discards.
- discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discreate — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- disgraced — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- disgracer — One who disgraces.
- disgraces — Plural form of disgrace.
- dislocate — to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
- displaced — lacking a home, country, etc.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- displaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of displace.
- distanced — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distances — Plural form of distance.
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- dixiecrat — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- docetaxel — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- doctorate — Doctor of Philosophy (def 1).
- dodecagon — a polygon having 12 angles and 12 sides.
- dodecanal — lauric aldehyde.
- dog-cheap — very inexpensive.
- dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- doorcases — Plural form of doorcase.
- douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- doughface — a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the controversies over new territories and slavery before the Civil War.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- drag race — a race between two or more automobiles starting from a standstill, the winner being the car that can accelerate the fastest.
- dratchell — a scruffy woman; a slut; a drab
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.