9-letter words containing e, d, i, t
- detrained — Simple past tense and past participle of detrain.
- detriment — If something happens to the detriment of something or to a person's detriment, it causes harm or damage to them.
- detrition — the act of rubbing or wearing away by friction
- detrivore — (biology) Any organism that feeds on detritus.
- detruding — Present participle of detrude.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deusdedit — Saint, died a.d. 618, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 615–618.
- deuteride — a compound of deuterium with some other element. It is analogous to a hydride
- deuterium — a stable isotope of hydrogen, occurring in natural hydrogen (156 parts per million) and in heavy water: used as a tracer in chemistry and biology. Symbol: D or 2H; atomic no: 1; atomic wt: 2.014; boiling pt: –249.7°C
- devasting — Present participle of devast.
- deviating — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
- deviative — tending to deviate or cause to deviate
- deviatory — Tending to deviate.
- devilment — devilish or mischievous conduct
- devitrify — to change from a vitreous state to a crystalline state
- devotions — Someone's devotions are the prayers that they say.
- dew point — the temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- dexterity — Dexterity is skill in using your hands, or sometimes your mind.
- diabesity — Used to refer to a form of diabetes that typically develops in later life and is associated with being obese.
- diabetics — Plural form of diabetic.
- diacetate — (chemistry) Any salt or ester having two acetate groups.
- diaconate — the office, sacramental status, or period of office of a deacon
- diaeretic — dieresis.
- dial tone — The dial tone is the same as the dialling tone.
- dialectal — of a dialect.
- dialectic — People refer to the dialectic or dialectics of a situation when they are referring to the way in which two very different forces or factors work together, and the way in which their differences are resolved.
- dialogite — rhodochrosite.
- dialysate — (in the process of dialysis) the fluid passing through the dialyser, used for drawing toxins out of the patient's blood stream
- dialyzate — the remaining, or colloidal, portion of a solution.
- diamagnet — a substance exhibiting diamagnetism
- diameters — Plural form of diameter.
- diametral — located on or forming a diameter
- diametric — of, relating to, or along a diameter
- dianetics — A discipline devised by w L. Ron Hubbard designed to heal psychosomatic illnesses by cleansing the mind of engrams.
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- diapyetic — of or pertaining to diapyesis
- diastases — Medicine/Medical. the separation of normally joined parts, as in the dislocation of bones, without fracture.
- diastemic — a minor hiatus in an orderly succession of sedimentary rocks.
- diasystem — a linguistic system forming a common denominator for a group or set of dialects.
- diathermy — local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes
- diatheses — Plural form of diathesis.
- diathesis — a hereditary or acquired susceptibility of the body to one or more diseases
- diathetic — Pathology. a constitutional predisposition or tendency, as to a particular disease or other abnormal state of the body or mind.
- diatomite — a soft very fine-grained whitish rock consisting of the siliceous remains of diatoms deposited in the ocean or in ponds or lakes. It is used as an absorbent, filtering medium, insulator, filler, etc
- diatretum — a type of decorative Roman bowl or cup made of glass
- diatribes — Plural form of diatribe.
- diazeutic — Alternative form of diazeuctic.
- diazotize — to cause (an aryl amine) to react with nitrous acid to produce a diazonium salt
- diazotype — a print produced by the diazo process.