9-letter words containing d, e, s, t
- détentist — a supporter of détente; someone who tries to ease political tensions
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- detersive — having cleansing power
- detesting — Present participle of detest.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- detonates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detonate.
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- detumesce — (intransitive, of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
- deusdedit — Saint, died a.d. 618, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 615–618.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- deutscher — Isaac, 1907–1967, English journalist and author, born in Poland.
- devastate — If something devastates an area or a place, it damages it very badly or destroys it totally.
- devasting — Present participle of devast.
- devotions — Someone's devotions are the prayers that they say.
- devoutest — Superlative form of devout.
- dexterous — Someone who is dexterous is very skilful and clever with their hands.
- dextrorse — (of some climbing plants) growing upwards in a helix from left to right or anticlockwise
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diabesity — Used to refer to a form of diabetes that typically develops in later life and is associated with being obese.
- diabetics — Plural form of diabetic.
- dialysate — (in the process of dialysis) the fluid passing through the dialyser, used for drawing toxins out of the patient's blood stream
- diameters — Plural form of diameter.
- dianetics — A discipline devised by w L. Ron Hubbard designed to heal psychosomatic illnesses by cleansing the mind of engrams.
- diastases — Medicine/Medical. the separation of normally joined parts, as in the dislocation of bones, without fracture.
- diastemic — a minor hiatus in an orderly succession of sedimentary rocks.
- diasystem — a linguistic system forming a common denominator for a group or set of dialects.
- diatheses — Plural form of diathesis.
- diathesis — a hereditary or acquired susceptibility of the body to one or more diseases
- diatribes — Plural form of diatribe.
- 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
- die-stamp — to produce words or decoration on (a surface) by using a steel die so that the printed images stand in relief
- diestocks — Plural form of diestock.
- dietetics — pertaining to diet or to regulation of the use of food.
- diffusate — (in dialysis) the solution or the crystalline material that passes into it through the semipermeable membrane; dialyzate.
- digestant — a substance that promotes digestion.
- digesters — Plural form of digester.
- digesting — Present participle of digest.
- digestion — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- digestive — serving for or pertaining to digestion; having the function of digesting food: the digestive tract.
- digitised — Simple past tense and past participle of digitise.
- digitiser — Alternative spelling of digitizer.
- digitizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of digitize.
- dignities — bearing, conduct, or speech indicative of self-respect or appreciation of the formality or gravity of an occasion or situation.
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- dioestrus — diestrus.
- diphysite — a person who believes that in Christ two distinct natures, the human and the divine, existed together
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.