9-letter words containing i, l, n
- 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.
- derailing — Present participle of derail.
- desalting — Present participle of desalt.
- descaling — Present participle of descale.
- designful — full of design or intention
- desilting — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- detailing — an individual or minute part; an item or particular.
- 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
- devaluing — to deprive of value; reduce the value of.
- devilment — devilish or mischievous conduct
- devolving — Present participle of devolve.
- dew snail — a slug
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- diagonals — Plural form of diagonal.
- dial down — to reduce or become reduced
- dial tone — The dial tone is the same as the dialling tone.
- dialation — Misspelling of dilation.
- dialyzing — to subject to dialysis; separate or procure by dialysis.
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- dictional — of or relating to diction
- dieseling — after-run.
- diffluent — tending to flow off or away.
- difluence — diffluence.
- digitalin — a glucoside obtained from digitalis.
- dilatancy — dilating; expanding.
- dilatants — Plural form of dilatant.
- dilations — Plural form of dilation.
- dilettant — Alternative form of dilettante.
- diligence — constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind.
- diligency — (obsolete) diligence; care.
- dilligent — Misspelling of diligent.
- dillinger — John, 1902–34, U.S. bank robber and murderer.
- dilutions — Plural form of dilution.
- ding ling — (Jiang Bingzhi) 1904–86, Chinese author.
- dingaling — (slang) A penis.
- diphenyl- — containing two phenyl groups in each molecule
- diplontic — (of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form, except for the gametes, is diploid.
- diplotene — a late stage of prophase during meiosis, in which the chromatid pairs of the tetrads begin to separate and chiasmata can be seen.
- diplozoon — a type of parasitic flatworm that exists as a pair of worms fused together in an X shape. Diplozoa fuse after meeting as two juvenile individuals (genus Diporpae) and are parasitic on the gills of fish
- disabling — Present participle of disable.
- disenable — to deprive of ability; make unable; prevent.
- disenroll — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disentail — to free (an estate) from entail.
- disfluent — lacking fluency in speech
- disliking — Present participle of dislike.
- dismantle — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- distantly — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
- diurnally — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
- diuturnal — Durable, long-lasting.
- divalence — the state of being divalent