9-letter words containing d, i, a
- defeatist — A defeatist is someone who thinks or talks in a way that suggests that they expect to be unsuccessful.
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- defiantly — characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.
- defibrate — to break (wood, paper, garbage, etc.) into fibrous components; reduce to fibers.
- defiladed — Simple past tense and past participle of defilade.
- defilades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defilade.
- definable — Something that is definable can be described or identified.
- definably — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- definatly — Misspelling of definitely.
- deflating — to release the air or gas from (something inflated, as a balloon): They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- defleaing — Present participle of deflea.
- defoliant — A defoliant is a chemical used on trees and plants to make all their leaves fall off. Defoliants are especially used in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- defoliate — To defoliate an area or the plants in it means to cause the leaves on the plants to fall off or be destroyed. This is done especially in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- defraying — Present participle of defray.
- degarnish — to remove ornamentation from (something)
- degassing — to free from gas.
- degearing — the process in which a company replaces some or all of its fixed-interest loan stock with ordinary shares
- deglazing — Present participle of deglaze.
- degrading — causing humiliation; debasing
- degrative — (chemistry) of something causing a cell or organism to degrade.
- deianeira — a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules, whom she killed unwittingly by giving him a shirt that had been dipped in the poisoned blood of Nessus.
- deictical — Deictic.
- deinstall — Uninstall.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- deisolate — to remove from isolation.
- deistical — a person who believes in deism.
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal
- delacroix — (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1798–1863, French romantic painter whose use of colour and free composition influenced impressionism. His paintings of historical and contemporary scenes include The Massacre at Chios (1824)
- delavigne — (Jean François) Casiˈmir (kaziˈmɪʀ) ; kȧzēmirˈ) 1793-1843; Fr. poet & playwright
- delibrate — (obsolete) To strip off the bark; to peel.
- delicates — Underwear or lingerie.
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- deligated — Simple past tense and past participle of deligate.
- delignate — (rare, transitive) To clear or strip of wood.
- delineate — If you delineate something such as an idea or situation, you describe it or define it, often in a lot of detail.
- delinkage — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- deliriant — involving or causing delirium.
- delphinia — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- deltoidal — of or relating to a river delta.
- demagogic — If you say that someone such as a politician is demagogic, you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- demanding — A demanding job or task requires a lot of your time, energy, or attention.
- demantoid — a bright green variety of andradite garnet
- demarking — demarcate.
- demassify — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- demeaning — Something that is demeaning makes people have less respect for the person who is treated in that way, or who does that thing.
- demential — severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- demiglace — A rich brown sauce used in French cuisine by itself or as a base for other sauces.
- demigrate — (obsolete) To emigrate.