9-letter words containing e, t, i
- deamidate — (organic chemistry) To remove an amide functional group from a compound.
- deaminate — to remove one or more amino groups from (a molecule)
- deathlike — resembling or suggestive of death
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decanting — to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- decastich — a poem that consists of ten lines
- deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
- deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
- decertify — to withdraw or remove a certificate or certification from (a person, organization, or country)
- deciduate — having or characterized by a decidua.
- deciliter — one tenth of a liter (3.376 fluid ounces or 6.1024 cubic inches)
- decilitre — one tenth of a litre
- decimated — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimeter — one tenth of a meter (3.937 inches)
- decimetre — one tenth of a metre
- decistere — a measure equivalent to one tenth of a stere
- declinant — a person who is declining or diminishing in luck or wealth
- declinate — (esp of plant parts) descending from the horizontal in a curve; drooping
- declinist — a person who believes that something is in decline
- declivity — a downward slope, esp of the ground
- decmate i — (computer) The first in DEC's series of miniaturised PDP-8 computers based on the Intersil 6120 [Harris 6120?] microprocessor and dedicated to wordprocessing. The DECmate was DEC's original competition for the IBM PC. The DECmate I was introduced in 1980 as the successor to the WT78. The processor ran at 10 MHz, and was housed in a VT100 CRT terminal. It was a very limted model, no EAE option was available, memory was 32 Kwords. It used the RX02 8" dual floppy drive. Options were the DP278-A and -B communication ports and RL278: 1 to 4 RL02 cartridge disk drives.
- decocting — Present participle of decoct.
- decoction — the extraction of the water-soluble substances of a drug or medicinal plants by boiling
- decoctive — of or relating to decoction
- decretion — The act of decreasing.
- decretist — a person who is knowledgeable on the subject of the Decretals or the papal edicts that make up part of canon law
- decretive — of or relating to an official and final decision
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- decubitis — (medical) Inflammations cause by a reclined position of the body; it often refers to the complications of bed-ridden patients such as bed sores.
- decubitus — the posture adopted when lying down
- 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
- defeating — Present participle of defeat.
- defeatism — Defeatism is a way of thinking or talking which suggests that you expect to be unsuccessful.
- defeatist — A defeatist is someone who thinks or talks in a way that suggests that they expect to be unsuccessful.
- 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.
- defiantly — characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.
- defibrate — to break (wood, paper, garbage, etc.) into fibrous components; reduce to fibers.