9-letter words containing t, e, l, d
- declinate — (esp of plant parts) descending from the horizontal in a curve; drooping
- declinist — a person who believes that something is in decline
- declivity — a downward slope, esp of the ground
- declutter — to simplify or get rid of mess, disorder, complications, etc, from
- decollate — to separate (continuous stationery, etc) into individual forms
- decollete — (on a piece of women's clothing) a bodice that has a very low neckline
- decontrol — When governments decontrol an activity, they remove controls from it so that companies or organizations have more freedom.
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- deculture — to deculturate.
- defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- defaulted — failure to act; inaction or neglect: They lost their best client by sheer default.
- defaulter — A defaulter is someone who does not do something that they are legally supposed to do, such as make a payment at a particular time, or appear in a court of law.
- defiantly — characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.
- definatly — Misspelling of definitely.
- definetly — Misspelling of definitely.
- deflating — to release the air or gas from (something inflated, as a balloon): They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deflected — curved or bent downward.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- deflorate — (of a plant) having lost its flowers
- defoliant — A defoliant is a chemical used on trees and plants to make all their leaves fall off. Defoliants are especially used in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- defoliate — To defoliate an area or the plants in it means to cause the leaves on the plants to fall off or be destroyed. This is done especially in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- deictical — Deictic.
- deinstall — Uninstall.
- deisolate — to remove from isolation.
- deistical — a person who believes in deism.
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal
- del sarto — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- delamater — Cornelius Henry, 1821–89, U.S. mechanical engineer and shipbuilder.
- delectate — to delight (a person)
- delegated — Entrust (a task or responsibility) to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself.
- delegatee — a person to whom something is delegated
- delegates — Plural form of delegate.
- delegator — a person who delegates
- deletable — able to be deleted
- deletions — Plural form of deletion.
- delftware — glazed earthenware, usually blue and white, which originated in Delft
- delibrate — (obsolete) To strip off the bark; to peel.
- delicates — Underwear or lingerie.
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- deligated — Simple past tense and past participle of deligate.
- delighted — If you are delighted, you are extremely pleased and excited about something.
- delighter — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
- delignate — (rare, transitive) To clear or strip of wood.
- delimited — to fix or mark the limits or boundaries of; demarcate: A ravine delimited the property on the north.
- delimiter — a character or group of characters which mark a limit in computer code
- delineate — If you delineate something such as an idea or situation, you describe it or define it, often in a lot of detail.
- delinting — minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.