9-letter words containing t, e, n, d, r
- determine — If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind.
- deterrent — A deterrent is something that prevents people from doing something by making them afraid of what will happen to them if they do it.
- deterring — to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- dethroned — Simple past tense and past participle of dethrone.
- dethroner — One who dethrones.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- detonator — A detonator is a small amount of explosive or a piece of electrical or electronic equipment which is used to explode a bomb or other explosive device.
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detorting — Present participle of detort.
- detortion — The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detrained — Simple past tense and past participle of detrain.
- detriment — If something happens to the detriment of something or to a person's detriment, it causes harm or damage to them.
- detrition — the act of rubbing or wearing away by friction
- detruding — Present participle of detrude.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- devonport — a city in N Tasmania.
- 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.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dicentric — an abnormal chromosome with two centromeres
- dietarian — Somebody following a diet, a dieter.
- different — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- diner-out — a person who dines out.
- dinergate — a soldier ant.
- dinitrate — (chemistry) Any compound having two nitrate groups.
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- dirtiness — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- disinters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disinter.
- 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.
- dissenter — a person who dissents, as from an established church, political party, or majority opinion.
- distender — One who, or that which, distends.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- disturned — Simple past tense and past participle of disturn.
- diterpene — (chemistry) any terpene formed from four isoprene units, and having twenty carbon atoms; includes vitamin A, the gibberellins, and various biologically active lactones such as quassin.
- dithering — a trembling; vibration.
- dittander — a plant, Lepidium latifolium, of coastal regions of Europe, N Africa, and SW Asia, with clusters of small white flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- diuranate — (inorganic chemistry) The dibasic anion U2O72- or any salt containing this anion.
- divergent — diverging; differing; deviating.
- diverting — serving to divert; entertaining; amusing.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- doorstone — a stone serving as the sill of a doorway.
- downtrend — a downward or decreasing tendency, movement, or shift: a downtrend in gasoline consumption; a downtrend in stock prices.
- draftsmen — (US) Plural form of draftsman.