9-letter words containing d, i, c
- acidulate — to make slightly acid or sour
- acidulent — an acidulating substance.
- acidulous — rather sour
- acquitted — to relieve from a charge of fault or crime; declare not guilty: They acquitted him of the crime. The jury acquitted her, but I still think she's guilty.
- acridness — Bitterness or acerbity.
- acrodynia — (pathology) An epidemic disease of the skin characterized by increased sensibility of the soles and palms, with pricking sensations in them and rheumatoid pains in the hands and feet.
- actinides — Plural form of actinide.
- actinopod — any protozoan of the phylum Actinopoda, such as a radiolarian or a heliozoan, having stiff radiating cytoplasmic projections
- activated — to make active; cause to function or act.
- addicting — a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance: a drug addict.
- addiction — Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
- addictive — If a drug is addictive, people who take it cannot stop taking it.
- adducting — Present participle of adduct.
- adduction — an adducing or citing
- adductive — of a nature that leads towards a change
- adiabatic — (of a thermodynamic process) taking place without loss or gain of heat
- adipocere — a waxlike fatty substance formed during the decomposition of corpses
- adipocyte — a fat cell that accumulates and stores fats
- adjection — Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added.
- adjective — An adjective is a word such as 'big', 'dead', or 'financial' that describes a person or thing, or gives extra information about them. Adjectives usually come before nouns or after link verbs.
- adminicle — something contributing to prove a point without itself being complete proof
- admirance — an admiration (for)
- advancing — to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
- advection — the transference of heat energy in a horizontal stream of gas, esp of air
- advective — relating to advection
- adviceful — thoughtful or attentive
- affianced — betrothed; engaged.
- afflicted — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- airy disc — the bright central part of the diffraction pattern of light from a point source that is diffracted by a circular aperture.
- alcimedes — the mother of Jason.
- alcimedon — an Arcadian hero whose daughter, Philao, was seduced by Hercules.
- aldehydic — any of a class of organic compounds containing the group −CHO, which yields acids when oxidized and alcohols when reduced.
- algaecide — a chemical substance for killing and preventing the growth of algae
- algicidal — killing or preventing the growth of algae
- algicides — Plural form of algicide.
- allianced — Simple past tense and past participle of alliance.
- alopecoid — resembling a fox
- aminoacid — Alternative spelling of amino acid.
- amygdalic — of almonds.
- anacidity — the abnormal absence of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
- andesitic — relating to, or containing, andesite
- anecdotic — anecdotal
- anecdysis — the period between moults in arthropods
- anhedonic — unable to feel or experience pleasure
- antichild — Opposing children.
- anticodon — a three-base unit of genetic code contained in transfer RNA that corresponds to a codon region on messenger RNA, involved in genetic translation
- aperiodic — not periodic; not occurring at regular intervals
- apodictic — that can clearly be shown or proved; absolutely certain or necessarily true
- aquiclude — any geological formation that absorbs and holds water but does not transmit it at a sufficient rate to supply springs, wells, etc.
- arachidic — of or derived from arachidic acid.