9-letter words containing d, o, i, n
- diamonded — Simple past tense and past participle of diamond.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- diapasons — Plural form of diapason.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.
- diazonium — of, consisting of, or containing the group, Ar-N:N-, where Ar is an aryl group
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dickinson — Emily. 1830–86, US poet, noted for her short, mostly unrhymed, mystical lyrics
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- dictation — Dictation is the speaking or reading aloud of words for someone else to write down.
- dictional — of or relating to diction
- dictyogen — a monocotyledon with reticulated leaves
- didrikson — Mildred(Mrs. George Zaharias) 1913-56; U.S. athlete in many sports
- diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- 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.
- digitonin — a type of glycoside obtained from the foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used as a cleansing agent
- digitoxin — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble cardiac glycoside, C 41 H 64 O 13 , or a mixture of cardiac glycosides of which this is the chief constituent, obtained from digitalis and used in the treatment of congestive heart failure.
- dignotion — (obsolete) distinguishing mark; diagnostic.
- dilations — Plural form of dilation.
- dilutions — Plural form of dilution.
- dimension — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- diner-out — a person who dines out.
- ding dong — the sound of a bell.
- ding-dong — the sound of a bell.
- dinomania — a strong interest in or enthusiasm for dinosaurs
- dinosaurs — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- dionysian — of, relating to, or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus.
- dionysius — ("the Elder") 431?–367 b.c, Greek soldier: tyrant of Syracuse 405–367.
- diosgenin — a crystalline compound, C 27 H 42 O 3 , the aglycone of dioscin: used in the synthesis of steroidal hormones, as of progesterone.
- diphthong — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- diplontic — (of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form, except for the gametes, is diploid.
- diplotene — a late stage of prophase during meiosis, in which the chromatid pairs of the tetrads begin to separate and chiasmata can be seen.
- diplozoon — a type of parasitic flatworm that exists as a pair of worms fused together in an X shape. Diplozoa fuse after meeting as two juvenile individuals (genus Diporpae) and are parasitic on the gills of fish
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disanoint — to invalidate the anointment of (a person)
- discommon — (at Oxford and Cambridge) to prohibit (tradespeople or townspeople who have violated the regulations of the university) from dealing with the undergraduates.
- discounts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discount.
- disection — Misspelling of dissection.
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disendows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disendow.
- disenroll — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disentomb — to remove from the tomb; disinter.
- dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.