9-letter words containing d, e, a, c
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- instanced — Simple past tense and past participle of instance.
- invocated — invoke.
- jack cade — Jack, died 1450, English rebel during the reign of Henry VI, based in Kent.
- jampacked — to fill or pack as tightly or fully as possible: We jam-packed the basket with all kinds of fruit.
- jaundiced — affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice: jaundiced skin.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- judicable — capable of being or liable to be judged or tried.
- juicehead — a heavy drinker of alcoholic liquor.
- knackered — exhausted; very tired: He is really knackered after work.
- lace card — (Obsolete) A punched card with all holes punched (also called a "whoopee card" or "ventilator card"). Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism. Card punches could also jam trying to produce these things owing to power-supply problems. When some practical joker fed a lace card through the reader, you needed to clear the jam with a "card knife" - which you used on the joker first.
- lacerated — lacerated.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- laid deck — a wooden deck having planking laid parallel to the sides of the hull so as to follow the curves toward the ends of the vessel.
- lake chad — a lake in N central Africa: fed chiefly by the Shari River, it has no apparent outlet. Area: at fullest extent 10 000 to 26 000 sq km (4000 to 10 000 sq miles), varying seasonally; it has shrunk considerably in recent years
- lame duck — an elected official or group of officials, as a legislator, continuing in office during the period between an election defeat and a successor's assumption of office.
- lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- laodicean — lukewarm or indifferent, especially in religion, as were the early Christians of Laodicea.
- lap dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- lap-dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- liar dice — a gambling game in which the throw of five dice by each player is concealed from the opponent and bluffing is permitted
- lidocaine — a synthetic crystalline powder, C 14 H 22 N 2 O, used as a local anesthetic and also in the management of certain arrhythmias.
- loadspace — the area in a motor vehicle where a load can be carried
- localised — localisation
- localized — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- loculated — Locular.
- logaoedic — composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.
- macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
- macedoine — a mixture of fruits or vegetables, often served as a salad.
- macedonia — Also, Macedon [mas-i-don] /ˈmæs ɪˌdɒn/ (Show IPA). an ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in S Europe: now a region in N Greece, SW Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia.
- macerated — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- macrocode — a single code that contains a set of instructions.
- macrodome — a dome the faces of which are parallel to the greater lateral axis.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- maculated — Simple past tense and past participle of maculate.
- main deck — the uppermost weatherproof deck, running the full length of a ship.
- maledicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maledict.
- manducate — to chew; masticate; eat.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.