9-letter words containing s, i, n, o
- diagonals — Plural form of diagonal.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diapasons — Plural form of diapason.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dickinson — Emily. 1830–86, US poet, noted for her short, mostly unrhymed, mystical lyrics
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- didrikson — Mildred(Mrs. George Zaharias) 1913-56; U.S. athlete in many sports
- diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- 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.
- dilations — Plural form of dilation.
- dilutions — Plural form of dilution.
- 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.
- dinosaurs — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- dionysian — of, relating to, or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus.
- dionysius — ("the Elder") 431?–367 b.c, Greek soldier: tyrant of Syracuse 405–367.
- diosgenin — a crystalline compound, C 27 H 42 O 3 , the aglycone of dioscin: used in the synthesis of steroidal hormones, as of progesterone.
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disanoint — to invalidate the anointment of (a person)
- discommon — (at Oxford and Cambridge) to prohibit (tradespeople or townspeople who have violated the regulations of the university) from dealing with the undergraduates.
- discounts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discount.
- 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.
- dishonors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishonor.
- dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- disinform — to give or supply disinformation to.
- disjoined — separated; disunited.
- dismounts — Plural form of dismount.
- disorient — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- disowning — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- dispondee — a double spondee
- disposing — Present participle of dispose.
- disprison — to release from prison
- disproven — Alternative irregular form of the Past participle of disprove.
- disrobing — Present participle of disrobe.
- 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.
- dissonant — disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
- dissonate — (music) To be dissonant.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- disyoking — Present participle of disyoke.
- diversion — the act of diverting or turning aside, as from a course or purpose: a diversion of industry into the war effort.
- divisions — Plural form of division.
- divulsion — a tearing apart; violent separation.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.