9-letter words containing e, c, r, i
- curveting — Present participle of curvet.
- curviness — The state or condition of being curvy.
- custodier — a custodian
- cut-price — Cut-price goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- cutleries — cutting instruments collectively, especially knives for cutting food.
- cybercity — A city with a strong basis in information technology.
- cyberzine — (computing) A magazine published on the Internet.
- cylinders — Plural form of cylinder.
- cyrenaica — a region and former province (1951–63) of E Libya: largely desert; settled by the Greeks in about 630 bc; ruled successively by the Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Italians. Area: 855 370 sq km (330 258 sq miles)
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decameric — Of or pertaining to a decamer.
- deceivers — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
- decemviri — Plural form of decemvir.
- decemvirs — a member of a permanent board or a special commission of ten members in ancient Rome, especially the commission that drew up Rome's first code of law.
- decerning — Present participle of decern.
- decertify — to withdraw or remove a certificate or certification from (a person, organization, or country)
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- deciliter — one tenth of a liter (3.376 fluid ounces or 6.1024 cubic inches)
- decilitre — one tenth of a litre
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimeter — one tenth of a meter (3.937 inches)
- decimetre — one tenth of a metre
- deciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decipher.
- decistere — a measure equivalent to one tenth of a stere
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- decliners — Plural form of decliner.
- decreeing — Present participle of decree.
- decretion — The act of decreasing.
- decretist — a person who is knowledgeable on the subject of the Decretals or the papal edicts that make up part of canon law
- decretive — of or relating to an official and final decision
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deer lick — a naturally or artificially salty area of ground where deer come to lick the salt
- deer tick — a tick that is parasitic on deer; esp., any of a genus (Ixodes) of ticks that transmit the spirochete causing Lyme disease
- delacroix — (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1798–1863, French romantic painter whose use of colour and free composition influenced impressionism. His paintings of historical and contemporary scenes include The Massacre at Chios (1824)
- demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
- dendritic — formed or marked like a dendrite.
- depicture — (transitive) To make a picture of; to paint or depict.
- dereistic — autism.
- derelicts — Plural form of derelict.
- described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- describer — A person who describes.
- describes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of describe.
- descrying — Present participle of descry.
- diaeretic — dieresis.
- diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter