9-letter words containing p, e, d, i
- disrupter — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- dissipate — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- distemper — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- diterpene — (chemistry) any terpene formed from four isoprene units, and having twenty carbon atoms; includes vitamin A, the gibberellins, and various biologically active lactones such as quassin.
- divide up — apportion
- dixie cup — Navy Slang. a round, white, brimmed hat worn by U.S. sailors.
- dolphinet — a female dolphin
- donepezil — a drug used to treat dementia
- doorpiece — an architecturally treated doorframe.
- downpipes — Plural form of downpipe.
- drainpipe — a large pipe that carries away the discharge of waste pipes, soil pipes, etc.
- draperies — coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- drillpipe — A drillpipe is a piece of tubular steel in a well, used for lowering and raising equipment and supplying drilling mud.
- drip feed — intravenous feeding.
- drip-feed — intravenous feeding.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- dumpiness — The quality of being dumpy.
- duopolies — Plural form of duopoly.
- duplexing — duplex apartment.
- duplexity — duplex apartment.
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- dyspepsia — deranged or impaired digestion; indigestion (opposed to eupepsia).
- dyspeptic — pertaining to, subject to, or suffering from dyspepsia.
- dysphemia — any impairment in the ability to speak.
- dyspnoeic — Alternative spelling of dyspneic.
- eavesdrip — the falling or dripping of rainwater from the eaves of a building
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- eldership — Seniority; the state or condition of being older.
- ellipsoid — A three-dimensional figure whose plane sections are ellipses or circles.
- end point — extremity
- endorphin — Any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological functions. They are peptides that activate the body’s opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect.
- endpoints — Plural form of endpoint.
- epedaphic — of or relating to atmospheric conditions
- ephedrine — A crystalline alkaloid drug obtained from some ephedras. It causes constriction of the blood vessels and widening of the bronchial passages and is used to relieve asthma and hay fever.
- ephemerid — (zoology) Any member of the Ephemeridae.
- epicardia — Plural form of epicardium.
- epicedial — funereal
- epicedium — Dirge, lament, elegy.
- epidaurus — an ancient port in Greece, in the NE Peloponnese, in Argolis on the Saronic Gulf
- epidemics — Plural form of epidemic.
- epidermal — Of or pertaining to the epidermis.
- epidermic — Of or pertaining to the epidermis or to the skin or bark.
- epidermis — The outer layer of cells covering an organism, in particular.
- epidosite — a rock formed of quartz and epidote
- epidurals — Plural form of epidural.
- epilogued — followed by an epilogue
- episodial — Episodic.
- epitaphed — Simple past tense and past participle of epitaph.
- epizoodic — Alternative spelling of epizootic, in the sense a particular disease (as opposed to an outbreak of disease).