9-letter words containing s, d, e
- adjustive — allowing for adjustment
- admeasure — to measure out (land, etc) as a share; apportion
- admissive — tending to admit.
- admittees — a person who has been or is going to be admitted: Every admittee must present a ticket at the door.
- adnascent — growing on or to something else
- adsorbate — a substance that has been or is to be adsorbed on a surface
- adsorbent — capable of adsorption
- adultness — the state or quality of being an adult; an impression of maturity
- adultress — a female adulterer
- advancers — Plural form of advancer.
- adventism — the belief that the Second Coming of Christ will occur soon
- adventist — a member of any of the Christian groups, such as the Seventh-Day Adventists that hold that the Second Coming of Christ is imminent
- adversary — Your adversary is someone you are competing with, or arguing or fighting against.
- adversely — unfavorable or antagonistic in purpose or effect: adverse criticism.
- adversion — (obsolete) An adverting or turning towards; attention.
- adversity — an unfortunate event or incident
- advertise — If someone or something advertises a particular quality, they show it in their appearance or behaviour.
- advisable — If you tell someone that it is advisable to do something, you are suggesting that they should do it, because it is sensible or is likely to achieve the result they want.
- advisedly — If you say that you are using a word or expression advisedly, you mean that you have deliberately chosen to use it, even though it may sound unusual, wrong, or offensive, because it draws attention to what you are saying.
- advocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advocate.
- aedoeagus — aedeagus.
- aforesaid — Aforesaid means the same as aforementioned.
- aforesayd — Obsolete spelling of aforesaid.
- aggressed — to commit the first act of hostility or offense; attack first.
- agnus dei — the figure of a lamb bearing a cross or banner, emblematic of Christ
- aids test — a blood test that detects whether the blood sample contains antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and thus whether a person has or is likely to develop AIDS
- airdromes — Plural form of airdrome.
- airfields — Plural form of airfield.
- alcimedes — the mother of Jason.
- aldehydes — Plural form of aldehyde.
- aldershot — a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)
- alewashed — showing the effects of drinking beer
- algicides — Plural form of algicide.
- algidness — the state or quality of being algid
- alkoxides — Plural form of alkoxide.
- almohades — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa during the 12th and 13th centuries.
- aloeswood — agalloch.
- alongside — If one thing is alongside another thing, the first thing is next to the second.
- altitudes — Plural form of altitude.
- ambassade — (obsolete) The mission of an ambassador.
- ambleside — a town in NW England, in Cumbria: a tourist centre for the Lake District. Pop: 3064 (2001)
- ambuscade — an ambush
- amnestied — a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
- amortised — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
- ampersand — An ampersand is the sign &, used to represent the word 'and.'
- amsterdam — the commercial capital of the Netherlands, a major industrial centre and port on the IJsselmeer, connected with the North Sea by canal: built on about 100 islands within a network of canals. Pop: 737 000 (2003 est)
- amygdules — Plural form of amygdule.
- anderssen — Adolf (ˈaːdɔlf). 1818–79, German chess player: noted for the incisiveness of his combination play
- andesitic — relating to, or containing, andesite
- androcles — (in Roman legend) a slave whose life was spared in the arena by a lion from whose paw he had once extracted a thorn