9-letter words containing d, e, s, c
- desecrate — If someone desecrates something which is considered to be holy or very special, they deliberately damage or insult it.
- desiccant — desiccating or drying
- desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate
- desinence — an ending or termination, esp an inflectional ending of a word
- despeckle — (computer graphics) To remove speckles from.
- 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.
- deviances — deviant quality or state.
- 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
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- diestocks — Plural form of diestock.
- dietetics — pertaining to diet or to regulation of the use of food.
- dioecious — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- 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.
- discalced — (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.
- discarded — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discarder — One who, or that which, discards.
- 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.
- discerped — Simple past tense and past participle of discerp.
- discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discipled — Religion. one of the 12 personal followers of Christ. one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1. any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.
- disciples — Religion. one of the 12 personal followers of Christ. one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1. any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.
- disclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of disclose.
- discloser — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- discloses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disclose.
- discluded — Simple past tense and past participle of disclude.
- discoured — Simple past tense and past participle of discoure.
- discoures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discoure.
- discourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discovers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discover.
- discovert — (of a woman) not covert; not under the protection of a husband.
- discovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
- discreate — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discredit — to injure the credit or reputation of; defame: an effort to discredit honest politicians.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- discussed — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- discusser — A person who discusses.
- discusses — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.