9-letter words containing e, c, r, i
- diarrheic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of diarrhea.
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dicentric — an abnormal chromosome with two centromeres
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dickering — Present participle of dicker.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dictature — dictatorship
- dimercury — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two mercury atoms in a molecule.
- directest — Superlative form of direct.
- directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
- directors — Plural form of director.
- directory — a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people.
- directrix — Geometry. a fixed line used in the description of a curve or surface.
- dirichlet — Peter Gustav Lejeune [pey-tuh r goo s-tahf luh-zhœn] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈgʊs tɑf ləˈʒœn/ (Show IPA), 1805–59, German mathematician.
- discarded — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discarder — One who, or that which, discards.
- discerned — Simple past tense and past participle of discern.
- discerner — to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
- discerped — Simple past tense and past participle of discerp.
- discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discloser — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- discoured — Simple past tense and past participle of discoure.
- discoures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discoure.
- discourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discovers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discover.
- discovert — (of a woman) not covert; not under the protection of a husband.
- discovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
- discreate — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discredit — to injure the credit or reputation of; defame: an effort to discredit honest politicians.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- discusser — A person who discusses.
- disgraced — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- disgracer — One who disgraces.
- disgraces — Plural form of disgrace.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- dissector — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- diuretics — Plural form of diuretic.
- dixiecrat — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- doleritic — Of the nature of dolerite.
- doorpiece — an architecturally treated doorframe.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- drecksill — a doorstep
- drenching — to wet thoroughly; soak.
- drift ice — detached floating ice in masses that drift with the wind or ocean currents, as in the polar seas.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.