9-letter words containing d, t, s
- creosoted — Simple past tense and past participle of creosote.
- crestwood — a city in E Missouri.
- cricetids — Plural form of cricetid.
- crispated — Crispate.
- crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
- crosstied — secured with crossties
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crudities — the state or quality of being crude.
- curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- custodier — a custodian
- custodies — Plural form of custody.
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- dactylics — Plural form of dactylic.
- dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
- dadaistic — the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who programmatically challenged established canons of art, thought, morality, etc.
- daghestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- daintiest — Superlative form of dainty.
- dalmatics — Plural form of dalmatic.
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- damnedest — If you say that something is the damnedest thing, you are emphasizing that it is surprising or odd.
- dantesque — in the style of Dante; characterized by impressive elevation of style with deep solemnity or somberness of feeling.
- dark star — an invisible star known to exist only from observation of its radio, infrared, or other spectrum or of its gravitational effect, such as an invisible component of a binary or multiple star
- darmstadt — an industrial city in central Germany, in Hesse: former capital of the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt (1567–1945). Pop: 139 698 (2003 est)
- darnedest — (euphemistic) See damnedest.
- darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- dashlight — a light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile, esp at night
- dastardly — If you describe an action as dastardly, you mean it is wicked and intended to hurt someone.
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- data base — a comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access, generally in a computer.
- databased — Simple past tense and past participle of database.
- databases — Plural form of database.
- datacomms — the transmission of data along communications systems
- datasheet — A document summarizing the performance and other technical characteristics of a product.
- datastage — (database, tool) A tool set for designing, developing, and running applications that populate one or more tables in a data warehouse or data mart.
- dataviews — Graphical user interface development software from V.I.Corporation, aimed at constructing platform-independent interactive views of dynamic data.
- datebooks — Plural form of datebook.
- datedness — the state of being old-fashioned
- datelines — Plural form of dateline.
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- dauntless — A dauntless person is brave and confident and not easily frightened.
- dawsonite — a mineral that is made up of sodium and aluminium hydrous carbonate and occurs in crystalline form
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- de forest — Lee. 1873–1961, US inventor of telegraphic, telephonic, and radio equipment: patented the first triode valve (1907)
- de-stress — If you de-stress or if something de-stresses you, you do something that helps you to relax.