9-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i
- decretist — a person who is knowledgeable on the subject of the Decretals or the papal edicts that make up part of canon law
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- demisters — Plural form of demister.
- dendrites — Plural form of dendrite.
- dentistry — Dentistry is the work done by a dentist.
- denturism — the practice by denturists of making artificial dentures and fitting them to patients.
- denturist — a person who makes dentures
- depositor — A bank's depositors are the people who have accounts with that bank.
- dereistic — autism.
- derelicts — Plural form of derelict.
- derivates — Plural form of derivate.
- dermestid — any beetle of the family Dermestidae, whose members are destructive at both larval and adult stages to a wide range of stored organic materials such as wool, fur, feathers, and meat. They include the bacon (or larder), cabinet, carpet, leather, and museum beetles
- desertify — to (cause to) become a desert
- deserting — Present participle of desert.
- desertion — the act of deserting or abandoning or the state of being deserted or abandoned
- destriers — Plural form of destrier.
- detailers — Plural form of detailer.
- detainers — Plural form of detainer.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- detersive — having cleansing power
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- diameters — Plural form of diameter.
- diatribes — Plural form of diatribe.
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- digesters — Plural form of digester.
- digitiser — Alternative spelling of digitizer.
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- dioestrus — diestrus.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dipterist — an expert on flies belonging to the order Diptera
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- directest — Superlative form of direct.
- directors — Plural form of director.
- dirtiness — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disasters — Plural form of disaster.
- disattire — (transitive) To undress.
- discovert — (of a woman) not covert; not under the protection of a husband.
- discreate — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discredit — to injure the credit or reputation of; defame: an effort to discredit honest politicians.
- disforest — To disafforest.
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- disinters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disinter.
- dislustre — to lose or remove lustre
- disnature — to deprive (something) of its proper nature or appearance; make unnatural.
- disorient — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.