9-letter words containing e, t, c
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disjected — Simple past tense and past participle of disject.
- dislocate — to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
- dispeptic — Misspelling of dyspeptic.
- dissected — Botany. deeply divided into numerous segments, as a leaf.
- dissector — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
- distanced — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distances — Plural form of distance.
- distiches — Alternative spelling of distichs Plural form of distich.
- 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.
- docetaxel — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- docketing — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- doctorate — Doctor of Philosophy (def 1).
- doctoress — a female doctor
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- doleritic — Of the nature of dolerite.
- dolmetsch — Arnold. 1858–1940, British musician, born in France. He contributed greatly to the revival of interest in early music and instruments
- domestics — Plural form of domestic.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- dordrecht — a city in SW Netherlands, on the Waal River.
- dotcommer — a company doing business mostly or solely on the Internet.
- dovecotes — Plural form of dovecote.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- dratchell — a scruffy woman; a slut; a drab
- drift ice — detached floating ice in masses that drift with the wind or ocean currents, as in the polar seas.
- duckwheat — India wheat.
- duct keel — box keel.
- duct tape — a strongly adhesive silver-gray cloth tape, used in plumbing, household repairs, etc.
- dulcitude — Sweetness.
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- dutch elm — a widely planted hybrid elm tree, Ulmus hollandica, with spreading branches and a short trunk
- dutch hoe — a type of hoe in which the head consists of a two-edged cross-blade attached to two prongs or of a single pressing of this shape
- dyslectic — Dyslexic.
- dyspeptic — pertaining to, subject to, or suffering from dyspepsia.
- dystectic — relating to the process of turning a solid compound to liquid by the application of heat and in which the compound splits into its two constituent parts
- dysthetic — relating to dysthesia
- eachother — (nonstandard) misspelling of each other Typically used in the context of
- east cape — the easternmost point of New Guinea, on Milne Bay
- ebionitic — relating to the Ebionites or their teachings
- ecarinate — having no carina or keel.
- eccentric — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
- ecdysiast — stripper (def 3).
- echelette — a diffraction grating designed to reflect infrared radiation.
- eclamptic — Of or pertaining to eclampsia.
- ecologist — the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
- economist — a specialist in economics.