9-letter words containing i, d, o, c
- diaconate — the office, sacramental status, or period of office of a deacon
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- diastolic — (of blood pressure) indicating the arterial pressure during the interval between heartbeats.
- diatropic — the tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.
- dicacious — teasing and cheeky in the way one speaks
- dichogamy — the maturation of male and female parts of a flower at different times, preventing automatic self-pollination
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- dichoptic — having the eyes distinctly separate
- dichotomy — If there is a dichotomy between two things, there is a very great difference or opposition between them.
- dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- dichromic — of or involving only two colours; dichromatic
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dickinson — Emily. 1830–86, US poet, noted for her short, mostly unrhymed, mystical lyrics
- dicky bow — a bow tie
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- dicrotism — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- dictation — Dictation is the speaking or reading aloud of words for someone else to write down.
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.
- dictatory — dictatorial
- dictional — of or relating to diction
- dictyogen — a monocotyledon with reticulated leaves
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- diestocks — Plural form of diestock.
- diglossic — the widespread existence within a society of sharply divergent formal and informal varieties of a language each used in different social contexts or for performing different functions, as the existence of Katharevusa and Demotic in modern Greece.
- dimorphic — having two forms.
- dioecious — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- diopsidic — of, relating to, or belonging to diopside
- dioptrics — the branch of geometrical optics dealing with the formation of images by lenses.
- dioristic — defining
- diplomacy — the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
- diplontic — (of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form, except for the gametes, is diploid.
- diplozoic — (of certain animals) bilaterally symmetrical
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- directors — Plural form of director.
- directory — a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people.
- disaccord — to be out of accord; disagree.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disciform — resembling the shape of a disc
- disclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of disclose.
- discloser — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- discloses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disclose.
- discoboli — Plural form of discobolus.
- discoidal — Having the flat, circular shape of a disc or a quoit.
- discology — the study of gramophone records
- discolors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discolor.