9-letter words containing s, i, o
- despotism — Despotism is cruel and unfair government by a ruler or rulers who have a lot of power.
- despotize — To behave like a despot.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deviously — departing from the most direct way; circuitous; indirect: a devious course.
- devisions — Plural form of devision: obsolete spelling of divisions.
- devotions — Someone's devotions are the prayers that they say.
- diabolism — activities designed to enlist the aid of devils, esp in witchcraft or sorcery
- diabolist — Theology. action aided or caused by the devil; sorcery; witchcraft. the character or condition of a devil. a doctrine concerning devils. a belief in or worship of devils.
- 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.
- diagnosis — Diagnosis is the discovery and naming of what is wrong with someone who is ill or with something that is not working properly.
- diagonals — Plural form of diagonal.
- dialogism — a deduction with one premise and a disjunctive conclusion
- dialogist — a person who writes or takes part in a dialogue
- dialogues — Plural form of dialogue.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diapasons — Plural form of diapason.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- diasporas — Plural form of diaspora.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- diastolic — (of blood pressure) indicating the arterial pressure during the interval between heartbeats.
- diatomist — a person specializing in the study of diatoms
- dicacious — teasing and cheeky in the way one speaks
- dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
- 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
- dicrotism — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.
- didrikson — Mildred(Mrs. George Zaharias) 1913-56; U.S. athlete in many sports
- diestocks — Plural form of diestock.
- 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.
- diglossia — the widespread existence within a society of sharply divergent formal and informal varieties of a language each used in different social contexts or for performing different functions, as the existence of Katharevusa and Demotic in modern Greece.
- diglossic — the widespread existence within a society of sharply divergent formal and informal varieties of a language each used in different social contexts or for performing different functions, as the existence of Katharevusa and Demotic in modern Greece.
- 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.
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- dimissory — dismissing or giving permission to depart.
- 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.
- dioecious — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- dioestrus — diestrus.
- 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.
- diopsidic — of, relating to, or belonging to diopside