9-letter words containing t, e, u
- decumbent — lying down or lying flat
- decurrent — extending down the stem, esp (of a leaf) having the base of the blade extending down the stem as two wings
- decurtate — Shortened, curtailed.
- decussate — to cross or cause to cross in the form of the letter X; intersect
- deducting — Present participle of deduct.
- deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
- deductive — Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions logically from other things that are already known.
- 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.
- defeature — to blemish or disfigure (a person or thing)
- degustate — to taste or savor carefully or appreciatively.
- degusting — Present participle of degust.
- degutting — to remove the entrails of; disembowel; gut.
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- demounted — Simple past tense and past participle of demount.
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- denatured — Having been deprived of its nature, having had its nature changed.
- denatures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denature.
- denotatum — (linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- dentulous — having teeth
- denturism — the practice by denturists of making artificial dentures and fitting them to patients.
- denturist — a person who makes dentures
- denudated — Simple past tense and past participle of denudate.
- denudates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denudate.
- departure — Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- depicture — (transitive) To make a picture of; to paint or depict.
- depollute — to eliminate, clean up, or decrease pollution in (an area).
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- depurated — Simple past tense and past participle of depurate.
- deputable — able to be deputed
- deschutes — river in central and N Oreg., flowing from the Cascade Range north into the Columbia River: c. 250 mi (402 km)
- despumate — to clarify or purify (a liquid) by skimming a scum from its surface
- destitute — Someone who is destitute has no money or possessions.
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- destructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destruct.
- desuetude — the condition of not being in use or practice; disuse
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detraquee — female insane person
- detruding — Present participle of detrude.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- detumesce — (intransitive, of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
- deusdedit — Saint, died a.d. 618, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 615–618.
- deuterate — to treat or combine with deuterium
- deuteride — a compound of deuterium with some other element. It is analogous to a hydride
- deuterium — a stable isotope of hydrogen, occurring in natural hydrogen (156 parts per million) and in heavy water: used as a tracer in chemistry and biology. Symbol: D or 2H; atomic no: 1; atomic wt: 2.014; boiling pt: –249.7°C
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- deutscher — Isaac, 1907–1967, English journalist and author, born in Poland.