9-letter words containing o, n, s, e
- devisions — Plural form of devision: obsolete spelling of divisions.
- devotions — Someone's devotions are the prayers that they say.
- 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.
- diagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- diagnoses — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- 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.
- dimension — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- diosgenin — a crystalline compound, C 27 H 42 O 3 , the aglycone of dioscin: used in the synthesis of steroidal hormones, as of progesterone.
- disection — Misspelling of dissection.
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disendows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disendow.
- disenroll — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- 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.
- disjoined — separated; disunited.
- disorient — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- dispondee — a double spondee
- disproven — Alternative irregular form of the Past participle of disprove.
- dissogeny — the condition in ctenophores in which an individual has two periods of sexual maturity, one in the larval and one in the adult stage.
- dissonate — (music) To be dissonant.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- diversion — the act of diverting or turning aside, as from a course or purpose: a diversion of industry into the war effort.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- dodginess — (uncountable) The condition of being dodgy.
- dogginess — the quality or characteristic of being doggy
- dolliness — the quality or characteristic of being like a doll
- dolostone — Rock consisting of dolomite.
- dominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dominate.
- domineers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of domineer.
- donatives — Plural form of donative.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- doorstone — a stone serving as the sill of a doorway.
- dorkiness — The state or quality of being dorky.
- dottiness — The state or quality of being dotty, mildly insane or preoccupied.
- douceness — the quality or characteristic of being douce
- dow jones — financial news firm
- dowdiness — The characteristic of being dowdy; frumpiness; plainness.
- down east — New England.
- downbeats — Plural form of downbeat.
- downiness — The quality of being downy.
- downpipes — Plural form of downpipe.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- downsides — Plural form of downside.
- downsized — Simple past tense and past participle of downsize.
- downsizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downsize.
- downslide — a decline or downward trend, as of prices.
- downslope — A downward slope.