9-letter words containing e, c, d
- cycadeoid — a member of an order of plants with woody stems and tough leaves that became extinct during the Cretaceous period
- cylinders — Plural form of cylinder.
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- d-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- dacoitage — (in India and Myanmar) a robbery by an armed gang or dacoit
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- dalliance — If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously.
- damascene — to ornament (metal, esp steel) by etching or by inlaying, usually with gold or silver
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- danceable — appropriate for or conducive to dancing: danceable music.
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- dancehall — a style of dance-oriented reggae, originating in the late 1980s
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- dancettee — having a pattern of chevrons
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- date back — If something dates back to a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- day-clean — the time after first dawn when the sun begins to shine; clear daybreak
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- de lancey — James, 1703–60, American jurist and politician in New York.
- de-couple — to cause to become separated, disconnected, or divergent; uncouple.
- de-excite — to cause (an atom) to fall from an excited energy level to a lower energy level.
- deacidify — to render (a substance) less acidic
- deaconess — (in the early church and in some modern Churches) a female member of the laity with duties similar to those of a deacon
- deactuate — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- dead code — (programming) (Or "infeasible path", "grunge") Any part of a program that can never be accessed because all calls to it have been removed, or because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else. The presence of dead code may reveal either logical errors due to alterations in the program or significant changes in the assumptions and environment of the program (see also software rot); a good compiler should report dead code so a maintainer can think about what it means. Sometimes it simply means that an *extremely* defensive programmer has inserted can't happen tests which really can't happen - yet. Synonym grunge.
- dead duck — If you describe someone or something as a dead duck, you are emphasizing that you think they have absolutely no chance of succeeding.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- deadstick — To land an aircraft without power.
- deadstock — the merchandise or commodities of a shop, etc, that is unsold and generating no income
- death cap — a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva
- death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
- debauched — If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people.
- debauchee — a man who leads a life of reckless drinking, promiscuity, and self-indulgence
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debouched — Simple past tense and past participle of debouche.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decadence — deterioration, esp of morality or culture; decay; degeneration
- decadency — the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay: Some historians hold that the fall of Rome can be attributed to internal decadence.
- decadents — Plural form of decadent.
- decagonal — Shaped like a decagon.
- decagrams — Plural form of decagram.
- decahedra — plural form of singular decahedron: solid figure with ten plane faces
- decalcify — to remove calcium or lime from (bones, teeth, etc)
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decalogue — Ten Commandments