9-letter words containing d, e, c, i, u
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- custodier — a custodian
- custodies — Plural form of custody.
- cutinized — Simple past tense and past participle of cutinize.
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- decennium — decade (sense 2)
- deciduate — having or characterized by a decidua.
- deciduous — A deciduous tree or bush is one that loses its leaves in the autumn every year.
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- decubitis — (medical) Inflammations cause by a reclined position of the body; it often refers to the complications of bed-ridden patients such as bed sores.
- decubitus — the posture adopted when lying down
- decupling — Present participle of decuple.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- deducible — to derive as a conclusion from something known or assumed; infer: From the evidence the detective deduced that the gardener had done it.
- deducibly — in a deducible or conjecturable manner
- deducting — Present participle of deduct.
- deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
- deductive — Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions logically from other things that are already known.
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
- depicture — (transitive) To make a picture of; to paint or depict.
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
- diazeutic — Alternative form of diazeuctic.
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- dictature — dictatorship
- difluence — diffluence.
- dimercury — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two mercury atoms in a molecule.
- dioecious — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- discluded — Simple past tense and past participle of disclude.
- discoured — Simple past tense and past participle of discoure.
- discoures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discoure.
- discourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- discussed — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- discusser — A person who discusses.
- discusses — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- diuretics — Plural form of diuretic.
- dixie cup — Navy Slang. a round, white, brimmed hat worn by U.S. sailors.
- dulcified — Sweetened; mollified.
- dulcifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dulcify.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- dulcitude — Sweetness.
- duodecimo — Also called twelvemo. a book size of about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 12 leaves or 24 pages. Symbol: 12 mo, 12°.
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.