9-letter words containing e, t, c
- dedicated — You use dedicated to describe someone who enjoys a particular activity very much and spends a lot of time doing it.
- dedicatee — a person to whom something is dedicated.
- dedicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dedicate.
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deducting — Present participle of deduct.
- deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
- deductive — Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions logically from other things that are already known.
- deer tick — a tick that is parasitic on deer; esp., any of a genus (Ixodes) of ticks that transmit the spirochete causing Lyme disease
- defaecate — Alt form defecate.
- defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- defecated — Simple past tense and past participle of defecate.
- defecates — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- defecting — a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection: a defect in an argument; a defect in a machine.
- defection — the act or an instance of defecting
- defective — If something is defective, there is something wrong with it and it does not work properly.
- defectors — Plural form of defector.
- deficient — If someone or something is deficient in a particular thing, they do not have the full amount of it that they need in order to function normally or work properly.
- deflected — curved or bent downward.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- dehiscent — (of fruits, anthers, etc) opening spontaneously to release seeds or pollen
- deictical — Deictic.
- deistical — a person who believes in deism.
- dejecting — (rare) present participle of deject.
- dejection — Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
- dejectory — tending to cast down
- delectate — to delight (a person)
- delicates — Underwear or lingerie.
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- demarcate — If you demarcate something, you establish its boundaries or limits.
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- dendritic — formed or marked like a dendrite.
- dent corn — a strain of Indian corn (Zea mays var. indentata) in which the mature kernel develops a slight depression at the tip
- denticles — Plural form of denticle.
- depascent — Consuming.
- depicting — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depiction — A depiction of something is a picture or a written description of it.
- depictive — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depicture — (transitive) To make a picture of; to paint or depict.
- deprecate — If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
- dereistic — autism.
- derelicts — Plural form of derelict.
- descanted — Simple past tense and past participle of descant.
- descartes — René (rəne). 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician. He provided a mechanistic basis for the philosophical theory of dualism and is regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. He also founded analytical geometry and contributed greatly to the science of optics. His works include Discours de la méthode (1637), Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (1641), and Principia Philosophiae (1644)
- deschutes — river in central and N Oreg., flowing from the Cascade Range north into the Columbia River: c. 250 mi (402 km)
- desecrate — If someone desecrates something which is considered to be holy or very special, they deliberately damage or insult it.
- desiccant — desiccating or drying
- desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate