9-letter words containing d, e, a
- curandera — (in Hispanic America) a female healer or shaman
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- cycadeoid — a member of an order of plants with woody stems and tough leaves that became extinct during the Cretaceous period
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- d'amboise — Jacques [French zhahk] /French ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), (Joseph) born 1934, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer.
- d'avenant — Sir William, 1606–68, English dramatist and producer: poet laureate 1638–68.
- dacoitage — (in India and Myanmar) a robbery by an armed gang or dacoit
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- dado head — a rotary cutter composed of several sawlike blades side by side, for cutting dadoes in wood.
- daedalean — an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete.
- daedalian — of Daedalus
- daedalion — a son of Lucifer who, despondent over the death of his daughter Chione, leaped off Parnassus: Apollo changed him into a hawk.
- daemonian — demonian.
- daemonize — Demonize.
- daffiness — silliness; craziness
- daggering — A type of dance associated with dancehall, where dancer simulate dry sex to the musical beat.
- daghestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- dahabeahs — Plural form of dahabeah.
- dailiness — the quality or nature of being daily
- daintiest — Superlative form of dainty.
- dal segno — (of a piece of music) to be repeated from the point marked with a sign to the word fine
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- daliesque — of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali: giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.
- dalliance — If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously.
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- damascene — to ornament (metal, esp steel) by etching or by inlaying, usually with gold or silver
- damaskeen — Alternative form of damascene.
- damn near — People use damn near to emphasize that what they are saying is not actually true, but is very close to being true.
- damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damnedest — If you say that something is the damnedest thing, you are emphasizing that it is surprising or odd.
- damnified — Simple past tense and past participle of damnify.
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- dampening — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- damselfly — any insect of the suborder Zygoptera similar to but smaller than dragonflies and usually resting with the wings closed over the back: order Odonata
- damyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- dan river — a river in S Virginia and N North Carolina, flowing S and E to the Roanoke River. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- danburite — a rare mineral, calcium borosilicate, CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 , occurring in pegmatite in yellow or colorless crystals resembling topaz.
- danceable — appropriate for or conducive to dancing: danceable music.
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- dancettee — having a pattern of chevrons