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9-letter words containing d, e, a

  • decimated — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
  • decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.
  • decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
  • deck beam — a stiffening deck member supported at its extremities by knee connections to frames or bulkheads
  • deck gang — (on a ship) the sailors who are on duty but not on watch.
  • deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
  • deck load — cargo carried on an open deck of a ship.
  • deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
  • declaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaim.
  • declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
  • declarant — a person who makes a declaration
  • declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
  • declaring — Present participle of declare.
  • declassee — (of a woman) having lost social standing or status
  • declinant — a person who is declining or diminishing in luck or wealth
  • declinate — (esp of plant parts) descending from the horizontal in a curve; drooping
  • decmate i — (computer)   The first in DEC's series of miniaturised PDP-8 computers based on the Intersil 6120 [Harris 6120?] microprocessor and dedicated to wordprocessing. The DECmate was DEC's original competition for the IBM PC. The DECmate I was introduced in 1980 as the successor to the WT78. The processor ran at 10 MHz, and was housed in a VT100 CRT terminal. It was a very limted model, no EAE option was available, memory was 32 Kwords. It used the RX02 8" dual floppy drive. Options were the DP278-A and -B communication ports and RL278: 1 to 4 RL02 cartridge disk drives.
  • decodable — Able to be read using a certain set of reading knowledge.
  • decollate — to separate (continuous stationery, etc) into individual forms
  • decorated — (often initial capital letter) of pertaining to, or characteristic of the English gothic architecture of the late 13th through the late 14th centuries, characterized by curvilinear tracery, elaborate ornamental sculpture and vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques.
  • decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
  • decorator — A decorator is a person whose job is to paint houses or put wallpaper up.
  • decoupage — the art or process of decorating a surface with shapes or illustrations cut from paper, card, etc
  • decreased — Simple past tense and past participle of decrease.
  • decreases — Plural form of decrease.
  • decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
  • decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
  • decurtate — Shortened, curtailed.
  • decussate — to cross or cause to cross in the form of the letter X; intersect
  • dedicated — You use dedicated to describe someone who enjoys a particular activity very much and spends a lot of time doing it.
  • dedicatee — a person to whom something is dedicated.
  • dedicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dedicate.
  • dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
  • deejaying — the activity of performing as a disc jockey
  • deep-draw — to form (tubing, containers, etc.) by pulling strip or sheet metal between suitably formed and spaced dies. Compare cup (def 22).
  • deep-laid — (of a plot or plan) carefully worked out and kept secret
  • deepwater — having or taking place in deep water
  • deer park — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • deergrass — a perennial cyperaceous plant, Trichophorum caespitosum, that grows in dense tufts in peat bogs of temperate regions
  • defaecate — Alt form defecate.
  • defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
  • defaulted — failure to act; inaction or neglect: They lost their best client by sheer default.
  • defaulter — A defaulter is someone who does not do something that they are legally supposed to do, such as make a payment at a particular time, or appear in a court of law.
  • defeasing — to defeat or annul (a contract, deed, etc.).
  • defeating — Present participle of defeat.
  • defeatism — Defeatism is a way of thinking or talking which suggests that you expect to be unsuccessful.
  • defeatist — A defeatist is someone who thinks or talks in a way that suggests that they expect to be unsuccessful.
  • defeature — to blemish or disfigure (a person or thing)
  • defecated — Simple past tense and past participle of defecate.
  • defecates — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
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