9-letter words containing n, o, t, d
- detection — Detection is the act of noticing or sensing something.
- detention — Detention is when someone is arrested or put into prison, especially for political reasons.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- dethroned — Simple past tense and past participle of dethrone.
- dethroner — One who dethrones.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- detonable — able to be detonated
- detonated — Simple past tense and past participle of detonate.
- detonates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detonate.
- detonator — A detonator is a small amount of explosive or a piece of electrical or electronic equipment which is used to explode a bomb or other explosive device.
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detorting — Present participle of detort.
- detortion — The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detrition — the act of rubbing or wearing away by friction
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
- devonport — a city in N Tasmania.
- devotions — Someone's devotions are the prayers that they say.
- dew point — the temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diaconate — the office, sacramental status, or period of office of a deacon
- dial tone — The dial tone is the same as the dialling tone.
- dialation — Misspelling of dilation.
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- dictation — Dictation is the speaking or reading aloud of words for someone else to write down.
- dictional — of or relating to diction
- dictyogen — a monocotyledon with reticulated leaves
- digestion — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- digitonin — a type of glycoside obtained from the foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used as a cleansing agent
- digitoxin — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble cardiac glycoside, C 41 H 64 O 13 , or a mixture of cardiac glycosides of which this is the chief constituent, obtained from digitalis and used in the treatment of congestive heart failure.
- dignotion — (obsolete) distinguishing mark; diagnostic.
- dilations — Plural form of dilation.
- dilutions — Plural form of dilution.
- diner-out — a person who dines out.
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- diphthong — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- 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.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- disanoint — to invalidate the anointment of (a person)
- discounts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discount.
- disection — Misspelling of dissection.
- disentomb — to remove from the tomb; disinter.
- dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
- dismounts — Plural form of dismount.
- disorient — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- dissonant — disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.