9-letter words containing d, e, c, u
- dutch hoe — a type of hoe in which the head consists of a two-edged cross-blade attached to two prongs or of a single pressing of this shape
- 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.
- ecuadoran — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- educatees — Plural form of educatee.
- educating — Present participle of educate.
- education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- educative — serving to educate: educative knowledge.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- educatory — educative.
- educement — the action of educing
- eductions — Plural form of eduction.
- edumacate — (humorous) deliberate misspelling of educate.
- elucidate — Make (something) clear; explain.
- enceladus — a giant who was punished for his rebellion against the gods by a fatal blow from a stone cast by Athena. He was believed to be buried under Mount Etna in Sicily
- encrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of encrust.
- endurance — The fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way.
- epicedium — Dirge, lament, elegy.
- euclidean — (rare) alternative spelling of Euclidean.
- eunuchoid — Resembling a eunuch, typically in having reduced or indeterminate sexual characteristics.
- eutectoid — Relating to or denoting an alloy that has a minimum transformation temperature between a solid solution and a simple mixture of metals.
- evacuated — Having had population removed, by evacuation.
- excaudate — (zoology) Not caudate; without a cauda.
- excluders — Plural form of excluder.
- excluding — Not taking someone or something into account; apart from; except.
- fecundate — to make prolific or fruitful.
- fecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- fractured — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- fucked up — to have sexual intercourse with.
- fungicide — a substance or preparation, as a spray or dust, used for destroying fungi.
- glucoside — any of an extensive group of compounds that yield glucose and some other substance or substances when treated with a dilute acid or decomposed by a ferment or enzyme.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- hiccupped — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- impudence — the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
- incrusted — Alternative spelling of encrusted.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- inducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- inductees — Plural form of inductee.
- inductile — not ductile; not pliable or yielding.
- inductive — of, relating to, or involving electrical induction or magnetic induction.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- interduce — (construction) An intertie.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- jaundiced — affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice: jaundiced skin.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- judicable — capable of being or liable to be judged or tried.