9-letter words containing n, i, a, s
- disengage — to release from attachment or connection; loosen; unfasten: to disengage a clutch.
- disentail — to free (an estate) from entail.
- dismantle — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- dismaying — Present participle of dismay.
- disnature — to deprive (something) of its proper nature or appearance; make unnatural.
- disputant — a person who disputes; debater.
- disranged — Simple past tense and past participle of disrange.
- disrating — Present participle of disrate.
- dissaving — The action of spending more than one has earned in a given period.
- dissonant — disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
- dissonate — (music) To be dissonant.
- distained — to discolor; stain; sully.
- distanced — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distances — Plural form of distance.
- 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.
- distraint — the act of distraining; a distress.
- dittanies — Plural form of dittany.
- dna virus — any virus containing DNA.
- domainist — (jargon) /doh-mayn'ist/ 1. Said of a domain address (as opposed to a bang path) because the part to the right of the "@" specifies a nested series of "domains"; for example, [email protected] specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com. See also big-endian. 2. Said of a site, mailer or routing program which knows how to handle domainist addresses. 3. Said of a person (especially a site admin) who prefers domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer, or proselytises for domainist addressing and disdains bang paths. This term is now (1993) semi-obsolete, as most sites have converted.
- dominants — Plural form of dominant.
- dominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dominate.
- donations — Plural form of donation.
- donatives — Plural form of donative.
- doornails — Plural form of doornail.
- downstair — down the stairs.
- draglines — Plural form of dragline.
- dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
- dragonism — a strict and domineering manner
- drainages — Plural form of drainage.
- drainless — inexhaustible.
- dulcianas — Plural form of dulciana.
- dunsinane — a hill NE of Perth, in central Scotland: a ruined fort on its summit is traditionally called Macbeth's Castle. 1012 feet (308 meters).
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- dynamites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dynamite.
- dynasties — Plural form of dynasty.
- dysgnosia — any intellectual impairment.
- dysmnesia — an impairment of memory.
- dysphonia — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- earliness — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- eastlings — eastward
- easygoing — going easily, as a horse.
- eightsman — a member of an eight-man rowing team
- emanatist — a person who believes that the universe derives its existence from the essence of God
- emigrants — Plural form of emigrant.
- enamelist — An artist who works with enamel.
- encanthis — a tumour of the eye
- encashing — Present participle of encash.
- encaustic — (especially in painting and ceramics) using pigments mixed with hot wax that are burned in as an inlay.
- enchasing — Present participle of enchase.