9-letter words containing d, e, c, i
- decillion — (in Britain, France, and Germany) the number represented as one followed by 60 zeros (1060)
- decimally — by tens
- 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.
- decimeter — one tenth of a meter (3.937 inches)
- decimetre — one tenth of a metre
- deciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decipher.
- decisions — A conclusion or resolution reached after consideration.
- decistere — a measure equivalent to one tenth of a stere
- 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.
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- 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
- decliners — Plural form of decliner.
- declining — deteriorating gradually, as in quality, health, or character
- declinist — a person who believes that something is in decline
- declivity — a downward slope, esp of the ground
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- 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.
- decocting — Present participle of decoct.
- decoction — the extraction of the water-soluble substances of a drug or medicinal plants by boiling
- decoctive — of or relating to decoction
- decodings — Plural form of decoding.
- decompile — Produce source code from (compiled code).
- deconning — Present participle of decon.
- decreeing — Present participle of decree.
- decretion — The act of decreasing.
- decretist — a person who is knowledgeable on the subject of the Decretals or the papal edicts that make up part of canon law
- decretive — of or relating to an official and final decision
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- deer lick — a naturally or artificially salty area of ground where deer come to lick the salt
- deer tick — a tick that is parasitic on deer; esp., any of a genus (Ixodes) of ticks that transmit the spirochete causing Lyme disease
- defecting — a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection: a defect in an argument; a defect in a machine.