9-letter words containing d, u, l
- defaulter — A defaulter is someone who does not do something that they are legally supposed to do, such as make a payment at a particular time, or appear in a court of law.
- deflexure — the act or condition of deflection or deviation
- defluxion — anything that flows downwards
- defueling — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- dehulling — to remove the hulls from (beans, seeds, etc.); hull.
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- deliquium — loss of consciousness; fainting
- delirious — Someone who is delirious is unable to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way, usually because they are very ill and have a fever.
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- delousing — Present participle of delouse.
- delphinus — a small constellation in the N hemisphere, between Pegasus and Sagitta
- deludable — Capable of being deluded; gullible.
- delundung — a spotted carnivorous mammal, Prionodon gracilis, native to East India and similar to the civet
- delusions — Plural form of delusion.
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- dentulous — having teeth
- depluming — Present participle of deplume.
- depollute — to eliminate, clean up, or decrease pollution in (an area).
- depulping — Also called dental pulp. the inner substance of the tooth, containing arteries, veins, and lymphatic and nerve tissue that communicate with their respective vascular, lymph, and nerve systems.
- deputable — able to be deputed
- deshuffle — (signal processing) To restore shuffled data to its original ordered state.
- designful — full of design or intention
- desireful — Filled with desire; eager.
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- devaluate — (transitive) To reduce in value.
- devaluing — to deprive of value; reduce the value of.
- deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
- deviously — departing from the most direct way; circuitous; indirect: a devious course.
- dialogued — Simple past tense and past participle of dialogue.
- dialogues — Plural form of dialogue.
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- difficult — not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- diffluent — tending to flow off or away.
- difflugia — a genus of ameboid protozoans that construct a shell of cemented sand grains.
- diffusely — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- difluence — diffluence.
- dilithium — A fictional crystalline mineral in the Star Trek franchise, described as an essential component of anti-matter energy generation systems.
- dilutable — capable of being diluted
- dilutions — Plural form of dilution.
- dip fault — a fault that runs perpendicular to the strike of the affected rocks (i.e. parallel to the plane of the angle of dip of the rocks)
- dipperful — (US) As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful.
- direfully — In a direful manner.
- disbursal — The act of disbursing money.
- discluded — Simple past tense and past participle of disclude.
- discolour — Alternative spelling of discolor.