9-letter words containing d, e, s, c, n, a
- deaconess — (in the early church and in some modern Churches) a female member of the laity with duties similar to those of a deacon
- decadents — Plural form of decadent.
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- deceasing — Present participle of decease.
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- depascent — Consuming.
- descaling — Present participle of descale.
- descanted — Simple past tense and past participle of descant.
- desiccant — desiccating or drying
- deviances — deviant quality or state.
- dianetics — A discipline devised by w L. Ron Hubbard designed to heal psychosomatic illnesses by cleansing the mind of engrams.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- distanced — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distances — Plural form of distance.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- 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
- enclasped — Simple past tense and past participle of enclasp.
- encreased — Simple past tense and past participle of encrease.
- endocarps — Plural form of endocarp.
- esclandre — (archaic) Infamy.
- evanesced — Simple past tense and past participle of evanesce.
- gasconade — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- haciendas — Plural form of hacienda.
- increased — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- indicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indicate.
- instanced — Simple past tense and past participle of instance.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- neckbands — Plural form of neckband.
- nonsacred — Not sacred.
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- oceanside — a city in SW California.
- sarcodine — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scamander — ancient name of the river Menderes.
- sciaenoid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- slamdance — to hurl oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock concert
- spaceband — a device on a linecaster for evening up the spaces between words
- stepdance — a dance in which the steps are the most important characteristic, specifically a solo dance with intricate, vigorous steps, often performed with the hands kept in the pockets.
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- sun dance — a religious ceremony associated with the sun, practiced by North American Indians of the Plains, consisting of dancing attended with various symbolic rites and commonly including self-torture.
- syndicate — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- transcend — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.