9-letter words containing e, n, d, o, t
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
- devonport — a city in N Tasmania.
- 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
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diaconate — the office, sacramental status, or period of office of a deacon
- dial tone — The dial tone is the same as the dialling tone.
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- dictyogen — a monocotyledon with reticulated leaves
- digestion — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- diner-out — a person who dines out.
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- diplotene — a late stage of prophase during meiosis, in which the chromatid pairs of the tetrads begin to separate and chiasmata can be seen.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- disection — Misspelling of dissection.
- disentomb — to remove from the tomb; disinter.
- dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
- disorient — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- dissonate — (music) To be dissonant.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- docketing — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- dolostone — Rock consisting of dolomite.
- dolphinet — a female dolphin
- dominated — to rule over; govern; control.
- dominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dominate.
- donatello — (Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi) 1386?–1466, Italian sculptor.
- donatives — Plural form of donative.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- donizetti — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1797–1848, Italian operatic composer.
- doorstone — a stone serving as the sill of a doorway.
- dottiness — The state or quality of being dotty, mildly insane or preoccupied.
- doubleton — a set of only two cards of the same suit in a hand as dealt: The other player held a doubleton.
- down east — New England.
- down-time — (jargon) A period of time during which a (computer) system is not operational, due to a malfunction or maintenance.
- downbeats — Plural form of downbeat.
- downstage — at or toward the front of the stage.
- downstate — the southern part of a U.S. state.
- downswept — curved downwards
- downtrend — a downward or decreasing tendency, movement, or shift: a downtrend in gasoline consumption; a downtrend in stock prices.
- dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- eastbound — traveling, proceeding, or headed east: an eastbound train.
- eddington — Sir Arthur (Stanley) 1882–1944, English astronomer, physicist, and writer.
- education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.