9-letter words containing d, s, p
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- compassed — Simple past tense and past participle of compass.
- composted — Simple past tense and past participle of compost.
- compounds — Plural form of compound.
- comprised — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- conspired — Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.
- copsewood — the smallest trees, and the bushes and ferns, of a coppice
- copy desk — a desk where copy is edited
- copyedits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyedit.
- copyholds — Plural form of copyhold.
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- crash pad — a place to live or sleep temporarily
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- dassiepis — (South African English) hyraceum: The solidified urine of a dassie, used medicinally, inter-alia, for epilepsy.
- dasypygal — (nonce) Having hairy buttocks.
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- dayspring — the dawn
- dead spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- dead-spot — Anatomy. a small area on the retina that is insensitive to light due to the interruption, where the optic nerve joins the retina, of the normal pattern of light-sensitive rods and cones.
- debt swap — A debt swap is a legal agreement where two people or companies exchange their debts, often where one has a fixed interest rate and one does not.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- deciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decipher.
- decompose — When things such as dead plants or animals decompose, or when something decomposes them, they change chemically and begin to decay.
- decouples — Separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.
- decus cpp — An almost-ANSI C preprocessor by Martin Minow. It is shipped with X11R5 (contrib/util/cpp) because some systems don't have a working cpp. It runs on VMS (Vax C, Decus C), RSX-11M, RSTS/E, P/OS, RT11, A/UX and Apollo Domain/IX 9.6 and is highly portable.
- deep-dish — prepared and served in a deep pan or dish
- deep-kiss — soul kiss.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- delphinus — a small constellation in the N hemisphere, between Pegasus and Sagitta
- depascent — Consuming.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- deplenish — to deprive of contents, such as furniture, stock, etc
- depleters — Plural form of depleter.
- deponents — Plural form of deponent.
- deportees — to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
- deposable — Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
- deposited — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- depositor — A bank's depositors are the people who have accounts with that bank.
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- depressed — If you are depressed, you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant.
- depresses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depress.
- depressor — a person or thing that depresses
- depthless — immeasurably deep; fathomless
- derepress — to cause (a gene) to cease to be repressed, by deactivating its depressor