9-letter words containing s, d, e, i
- anisidine — (organic compound) Any of three three isomeric forms of the aromatic amine methoxyaniline; they are toxic, and are used in the synthesis of azo dyes and pharmaceuticals.
- annalised — Simple past tense and past participle of annalise.
- antidotes — Plural form of antidote.
- antinodes — Plural form of antinode.
- antipodes — People sometimes refer to Australia and New Zealand as the Antipodes.
- anybodies — a person of some importance: If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.
- appraised — Simple past tense and past participle of appraise.
- apsidiole — a secondary, or small, apse
- aptitudes — Plural form of aptitude.
- aridities — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- aristides — known as Aristides the Just. ?530–?468 bc, Athenian general and statesman, who played a prominent part in the Greek victories over the Persians at Marathon (490), Salamis (480), and Plataea (479)
- arsenides — Plural form of arsenide.
- asafetida — a bad-smelling gum resin obtained from various Asiatic plants (genus Ferula) of the umbel family: it was formerly used to treat some illnesses or, in folk medicine, to repel disease
- asbestoid — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- ascarides — any parasitic roundworm of the genus Ascaris, found in the human small intestine and causing colic and diarrhea.
- ascending — If a group of things is arranged in ascending order, each thing is bigger, greater, or more important than the thing before it.
- ascidiate — of or relating to the tunicate molluscs of the genus Ascidium
- asclepiad — a plant that belongs to the class Asclepiadaceae
- asiderite — an iron-free meteorite consisting of friable material.
- aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
- asteroids — Plural form of asteroid.
- astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
- astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
- asyndesis — (psychiatry) A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- attitudes — Plural form of attitude.
- audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
- auditress — a female auditor
- autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
- axis deer — an Asian deer, Cervus (Axis) axis, of India and Sri Lanka, having a reddish-brown coat spotted with white.
- backsides — Plural form of backside.
- backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- bandiness — the quality of being bandy
- bandished — Simple past tense and past participle of bandish.
- bashed in — crushed or dented from a blow
- basic dye — a dye soluble in acid and insoluble in basic solution, consisting mostly of amino or imino compounds of xanthene or triarylmethane: used mainly for inks, carbon paper, and typewriter ribbon.
- basifixed — (of an anther) attached to the filament by its base
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- bdelliums — Plural form of bdellium.
- beachside — situated near a beach
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
- bedsitter — A bedsitter is the same as a bedsit.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- bensulide — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 14 H 24 O 4 NPS 3 , used primarily to control crabgrass and broadleaf weeds.
- bestirred — to stir up; rouse to action (often used reflexively): She bestirred herself at the first light of morning.
- bethsaida — a ruined town in N Israel, near the N shore of the Sea of Galilee