9-letter words containing s, l, i, d
- chilidogs — Plural form of chilidog.
- chilopods — Plural form of chilopod.
- chiselled — If you say that someone, usually a man, has chiselled features, you mean that their face has a strong, clear bone structure.
- chlorides — Plural form of chloride.
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- civilised — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- clackdish — a dish carried by a beggar
- cladistic — relating to the classification of species based on evolutionary ancestry
- cliffside — The side of a cliff.
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- cnidocils — Plural form of cnidocil.
- cold fish — If you say that someone is a cold fish, you think that they are unfriendly and unemotional.
- colletids — Plural form of colletid.
- colliders — Plural form of collider.
- colonised — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- corydalis — any erect or climbing plant of the N temperate genus Corydalis, having finely-lobed leaves and spurred yellow or pinkish flowers: family Fumariaceae
- cuddlings — Plural form of cuddling.
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- cylinders — Plural form of cylinder.
- dactylics — Plural form of dactylic.
- dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
- daffodils — Plural form of daffodil.
- dailiness — the quality or nature of being daily
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- daliesque — of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali: giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.
- dalmatics — Plural form of dalmatic.
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- darklings — in darkness
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- dashlight — a light illuminating the dashboard of an automobile, esp at night
- datelines — Plural form of dateline.
- day-lewis — C(ecil). 1904–72, British poet, critic, and (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) author of detective stories; poet laureate (1968–72)
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- de valois — Dame Ninette (niːˈnɛt). original name Edris Stannus. 1898–2001, British ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Ireland: a founder of the Vic-Wells Ballet Company (1931), which under her direction became the Royal Ballet (1956)
- deadliest — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlines — Plural form of deadline.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- decliners — Plural form of decliner.
- declinist — a person who believes that something is in decline
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- defilades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defilade.
- deinstall — Uninstall.
- deisolate — to remove from isolation.
- deistical — a person who believes in deism.
- deletions — Plural form of deletion.
- delicates — Underwear or lingerie.
- delicense — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- delirious — Someone who is delirious is unable to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way, usually because they are very ill and have a fever.