9-letter words containing d, e, c, n
- depicting — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depiction — A depiction of something is a picture or a written description of it.
- descaling — Present participle of descale.
- descanted — Simple past tense and past participle of descant.
- descended — A person who is descended from someone who lived a long time ago is directly related to them.
- descender — a person or thing that descends
- descrying — Present participle of descry.
- desiccant — desiccating or drying
- desinence — an ending or termination, esp an inflectional ending of a word
- detaching — Present participle of detach.
- detecting — Present participle of detect.
- detection — Detection is the act of noticing or sensing something.
- 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
- deviances — deviant quality or state.
- devoicing — the process by which a consonant that is usually voiced becomes devoiced
- diaconate — the office, sacramental status, or period of office of a deacon
- dianetics — A discipline devised by w L. Ron Hubbard designed to heal psychosomatic illnesses by cleansing the mind of engrams.
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dicentric — an abnormal chromosome with two centromeres
- dickering — Present participle of dicker.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dictyogen — a monocotyledon with reticulated leaves
- dietician — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- difluence — diffluence.
- digenetic — alternation of generations.
- diligence — constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind.
- diligency — (obsolete) diligence; care.
- directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- discerned — Simple past tense and past participle of discern.
- discerner — to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
- disection — Misspelling of dissection.
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- distanced — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distances — Plural form of distance.
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- dividence — (obsolete, rare) Division.
- do nicely — If someone or something is doing nicely, they are being successful.
- docketing — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- dodecagon — a polygon having 12 angles and 12 sides.
- dodecanal — lauric aldehyde.
- dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- douceness — the quality or characteristic of being douce
- downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downcycle — a downward course in the business cycle.