9-letter words containing d, e, t, c, i
- directors — Plural form of director.
- directory — a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people.
- directrix — Geometry. a fixed line used in the description of a curve or surface.
- dirichlet — Peter Gustav Lejeune [pey-tuh r goo s-tahf luh-zhœn] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈgʊs tɑf ləˈʒœn/ (Show IPA), 1805–59, German mathematician.
- 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.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- diuretics — Plural form of diuretic.
- dixiecrat — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- docketing — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- doleritic — Of the nature of dolerite.
- domestics — Plural form of domestic.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- drift ice — detached floating ice in masses that drift with the wind or ocean currents, as in the polar seas.
- dulcitude — Sweetness.
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- 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).
- edge city — an area on the outskirts of a city having a high density of office buildings, shopping malls, hotels, etc.
- edificant — Building; constructing.
- 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.
- eductions — Plural form of eduction.
- elucidate — Make (something) clear; explain.
- emaciated — Abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food.
- endeictic — functioning to exhibit
- endocytic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to endocytosis.
- endotoxic — Of, related to, or caused by an endotoxin.
- eradicant — something that eradicates
- eradicate — Destroy completely; put an end to.
- ethnocide — The deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group.
- eutectoid — Relating to or denoting an alloy that has a minimum transformation temperature between a solid solution and a simple mixture of metals.
- excitedly — In an excited manner; .