9-letter words containing d, i, c, o, t
- dislocate — to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
- dissector — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
- dithionic — of or derived from dithionic acid.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- dizygotic — developed from two fertilized ova, as fraternal twins.
- docketing — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- doctorial — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- doctoring — Present participle of doctor.
- doctrinal — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- dogmatics — the study of the arrangement and statement of religious doctrines, especially of the doctrines received in and taught by the Christian church.
- doleritic — Of the nature of dolerite.
- dolomitic — (geology) Of, pertaining to or containing dolomite.
- domestics — Plural form of domestic.
- dot pitch — (hardware) The distance between a dot and the closest dot of the same colour (red, green or blue) on a color CRT. Dot pitch is typically from 0.28 to 0.51 mm but large presentation monitors may go up to 1.0 mm. The smaller the dot pitch, the crisper the image, 0.31 or less provides a sharp image, especially when displaying text. Dot pitch measurements between conventional tubes and Sony's Trinitron tubes are roughly, but not exactly comparable. Sony's CRTs use vertical stripes, not dots, and its measurement is the distance between stripes, not the diagonal distance between dots.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- downticks — Plural form of downtick.
- 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.
- eductions — Plural form of eduction.
- endocytic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to endocytosis.
- endotoxic — Of, related to, or caused by an endotoxin.
- 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.
- factoidal — of or resembling a factoid; (of a piece of writing) comprising facts and factoids
- foeticide — feticide.
- forecited — previously cited.
- fructidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the twelfth month of the year, extending from August 18 to September 16.
- galactoid — resembling milk; milky.
- geodetics — The scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, earth tides, and tectonic motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space.
- goldstick — a gilt rod carried by the colonel of the Life Guards or the captain of the gentlemen-at-arms
- hydroptic — (formerly) edema.
- ichthyoid — Also, ichthyoidal. fishlike.
- idiolects — Plural form of idiolect.
- idiomatic — peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect: idiomatic French.
- idiotical — of, relating to, or characteristic of an idiot.
- idioticon — a dictionary of dialect
- idiotypic — the molecular arrangement of amino acids unique to the antigen-binding site of a particular antibody.
- incondite — ill-constructed; unpolished: incondite prose.
- indicator — a person or thing that indicates.
- indiction — a proclamation made every 15 years in the later Roman Empire, fixing the valuation of property to be used as a basis for taxation.
- indigotic — indigo (def 5).
- induction — the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.
- inductors — Plural form of inductor.
- insectoid — Insect-like.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introduct — (obsolete) To instruct.
- invocated — invoke.
- iridocyte — a guanine-containing cell in the skin of fish and some cephalopods, giving these animals their iridescence
- jocundity — the state or an instance of being jocund; gaiety.
- judicator — a person who acts as judge or sits in judgment.