9-letter words containing d, e, c, s, t
- desiccant — desiccating or drying
- desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate
- dessicate — Misspelling of desiccate.
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- destructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destruct.
- detectors — Plural form of detector.
- detumesce — (intransitive, of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
- deutscher — Isaac, 1907–1967, English journalist and author, born in Poland.
- diabetics — Plural form of diabetic.
- dianetics — A discipline devised by w L. Ron Hubbard designed to heal psychosomatic illnesses by cleansing the mind of engrams.
- diastemic — a minor hiatus in an orderly succession of sedimentary rocks.
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dick test — a skin test for determining whether a person is immune or susceptible to scarlet fever
- diestocks — Plural form of diestock.
- dietetics — pertaining to diet or to regulation of the use of food.
- directest — Superlative form of direct.
- directors — Plural form of director.
- disaffect — to alienate the affection, sympathy, or support of; make discontented or disloyal: The dictator's policies had soon disaffected the people.
- discovert — (of a woman) not covert; not under the protection of a husband.
- discreate — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discredit — to injure the credit or reputation of; defame: an effort to discredit honest politicians.
- disection — Misspelling of dissection.
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disjected — Simple past tense and past participle of disject.
- dislocate — to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
- dispeptic — Misspelling of dyspeptic.
- dissected — Botany. deeply divided into numerous segments, as a leaf.
- dissector — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
- distanced — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distances — Plural form of distance.
- distiches — Alternative spelling of distichs Plural form of distich.
- diuretics — Plural form of diuretic.
- doctoress — a female doctor
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- dolmetsch — Arnold. 1858–1940, British musician, born in France. He contributed greatly to the revival of interest in early music and instruments
- domestics — Plural form of domestic.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- dovecotes — Plural form of dovecote.
- dyslectic — Dyslexic.
- dyspeptic — pertaining to, subject to, or suffering from dyspepsia.
- dystectic — relating to the process of turning a solid compound to liquid by the application of heat and in which the compound splits into its two constituent parts
- dysthetic — relating to dysthesia
- ecdysiast — stripper (def 3).
- educatees — Plural form of educatee.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- eductions — Plural form of eduction.
- encrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of encrust.
- escalated — Increase rapidly.