9-letter words containing s, y, t
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- demystify — If you demystify something, you make it easier to understand by giving a clear explanation of it.
- dentistry — Dentistry is the work done by a dentist.
- desertify — to (cause to) become a desert
- destroyed — to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
- destroyer — A destroyer is a small, heavily armed warship.
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diabesity — Used to refer to a form of diabetes that typically develops in later life and is associated with being obese.
- dialysate — (in the process of dialysis) the fluid passing through the dialyser, used for drawing toxins out of the patient's blood stream
- diasystem — a linguistic system forming a common denominator for a group or set of dialects.
- 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.
- diphysite — a person who believes that in Christ two distinct natures, the human and the divine, existed together
- discotomy — (surgery) alternative spelling of discectomy.
- dismality — the quality of being dismal
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- dist atty — District Attorney
- distantly — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
- diversity — the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness: diversity of opinion.
- doltishly — In a doltish manner.
- dosimetry — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- dry steam — steam that does not contain droplets of water
- dry stock — cattle that are raised for meat
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- dryasdust — a dull, pedantic person
- drysalter — a dealer in dry chemicals and dyes.
- dubiosity — dubiety.
- dustywing — any of the rare, minute neuropterous insects of the family Coniopterygidae, characterized by a white, powdery body and wing cover, large eyes, long and slender antennae, and chewing mouthparts.
- duteously — In a duteous manner.
- dyestuffs — Plural form of dyestuff.
- dynamites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dynamite.
- dynasties — Plural form of dynasty.
- dyscratic — having or suffering from dyscrasia
- dysentery — Infection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces.
- dysfluent — Without proper fluency; not fluent.
- dyslectic — Dyslexic.
- dysmature — Exhibiting dysmaturity.
- dysmetria — the inability to conform muscular action to desired movements because of faulty judgment of distance.
- dyspeptic — pertaining to, subject to, or suffering from dyspepsia.
- dystectic — relating to the process of turning a solid compound to liquid by the application of heat and in which the compound splits into its two constituent parts
- dysthesia — an unusual or disagreeable feeling in or on the body compared to crawling or burning
- dysthetic — relating to dysthesia
- dysthymia — depression; despondency or a tendency to be despondent.
- dysthymic — A person diagnosed with dysthymia, or dysthymic depression.
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- dystopias — Plural form of dystopia.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.