9-letter words containing n, i, d, l, e
- 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
- dial tone — The dial tone is the same as the dialling tone.
- dieseling — after-run.
- diffluent — tending to flow off or away.
- difluence — diffluence.
- 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.
- diphenyl- — containing two phenyl groups in each molecule
- diplotene — a late stage of prophase during meiosis, in which the chromatid pairs of the tetrads begin to separate and chiasmata can be seen.
- 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
- dismantle — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- divellent — (obsolete) drawing asunder.
- dixieland — (sometimes lowercase) a style of jazz, originating in New Orleans, played by a small group of instruments, as trumpet, trombone, clarinet, piano, and drums, and marked by strongly accented four-four rhythm and vigorous, quasi-improvisational solos and ensembles.
- do a line — to associate (with a person of the opposite sex) regularly; go out (with)
- do nicely — If someone or something is doing nicely, they are being successful.
- dolliness — the quality or characteristic of being like a doll
- dolphinet — a female dolphin
- donepezil — a drug used to treat dementia
- dowelling — Present participle of dowel.
- downfield — In or to a position nearer to the opponents' end of a field.
- downslide — a decline or downward trend, as of prices.
- draglines — Plural form of dragline.
- drainable — Capable of being drained.
- drainless — inexhaustible.
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- driveline — the components of the power train of an automotive vehicle that are between the transmission and the differential, and generally consisting of the drive shaft and universal joint.
- driveling — saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- dunnville — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- duplexing — duplex apartment.
- dwellings — a building or place of shelter to live in; place of residence; abode; home.
- eledoisin — a protein, C54H85N13O15S, found in the salivary glands of several small octopuses of the genus Eledone. It can be used as a vasodilator and also has other medical uses
- elfinwood — Krummholz.
- enchilada — A rolled tortilla with a filling typically of meat and served with a chili sauce.
- encircled — Simple past tense and past participle of encircle.
- enfiladed — Simple past tense and past participle of enfilade.