9-letter words containing i, d, u
- 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.
- defluxion — anything that flows downwards
- defueling — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- defunding — Present participle of defund.
- degumming — The removal of gum from a material, especially the removal of sericin from silk or phospholipids etc. from vegetable oils.
- degunking — Present participle of degunk.
- degusting — Present participle of degust.
- degutting — to remove the entrails of; disembowel; gut.
- dehulling — to remove the hulls from (beans, seeds, etc.); hull.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- deliquium — loss of consciousness; fainting
- delirious — Someone who is delirious is unable to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way, usually because they are very ill and have a fever.
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- delousing — Present participle of delouse.
- delphinus — a small constellation in the N hemisphere, between Pegasus and Sagitta
- delusions — Plural form of delusion.
- demipique — a military saddle of the18th century, with its peak roughly half the height of the older war-saddle
- demiurges — Plural form of demiurge.
- demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- demurring — Present participle of demur.
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- denturism — the practice by denturists of making artificial dentures and fitting them to patients.
- denturist — a person who makes dentures
- depardieu — Gérard. born 1948, French film actor, granted Russian citizenship in 2013. His films include Jean de Florette (1986), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Green Card (1991), The Man in the Iron Mask (1997), and Tais-toi (2003)
- depicture — (transitive) To make a picture of; to paint or depict.
- depluming — Present participle of deplume.
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- depulping — Also called dental pulp. the inner substance of the tooth, containing arteries, veins, and lymphatic and nerve tissue that communicate with their respective vascular, lymph, and nerve systems.
- designful — full of design or intention
- desireful — Filled with desire; eager.
- desmodium — a genus of flowering plant, with usually unobtrusive flowers; many members are considered weeds, such as the beggarweed (Desmodium tortuosum)
- destitute — Someone who is destitute has no money or possessions.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detruding — Present participle of detrude.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- deusdedit — Saint, died a.d. 618, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 615–618.
- deuteride — a compound of deuterium with some other element. It is analogous to a hydride
- deuterium — a stable isotope of hydrogen, occurring in natural hydrogen (156 parts per million) and in heavy water: used as a tracer in chemistry and biology. Symbol: D or 2H; atomic no: 1; atomic wt: 2.014; boiling pt: –249.7°C
- devaluing — to deprive of value; reduce the value of.
- deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
- deviously — departing from the most direct way; circuitous; indirect: a devious course.
- devouring — Present participle of devour.
- diacodium — (in pre-modern medicine) a herbal remedy made chiefly from poppies, acting as an opiate and thus used to aid sleep
- dialogued — Simple past tense and past participle of dialogue.