9-letter words containing d
- abounding — to occur or exist in great quantities or numbers: a stream in which trout abound.
- abovesaid — Mentioned or recited before.
- abradable — capable of being abraded
- abreacted — Simple past tense and past participle of abreact.
- abridging — to shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents: to abridge a reference book.
- abrogated — to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal: to abrogate a law.
- abscessed — a localized collection of pus in the tissues of the body, often accompanied by swelling and inflammation and frequently caused by bacteria.
- absconded — Leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as theft.
- abscondee — a person who absconds; absconder.
- absconder — to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution: The cashier absconded with the money.
- abstained — to hold oneself back voluntarily, especially from something regarded as improper or unhealthy (usually followed by from): to abstain from eating meat.
- absurdism — the belief that life is meaningless and that all attempts to understand the universe are doomed to fail
- absurdist — An absurdist play or other work shows how absurd some aspect of society or human behaviour is.
- absurdity — the quality or state of being absurd; nonsense
- abu dhabi — a sheikhdom (emirate) of SE Arabia, on the S coast of the Persian Gulf: the chief sheikhdom and capital of the United Arab Emirates, consisting principally of the port of Abu Dhabi and a desert hinterland; contains major oilfields. Pop: 476 000 (2005 est). Area: 67 350 sq km (25 998 sq miles)
- abuilding — in the process of being built or building
- abundance — An abundance of something is a large quantity of it.
- abundancy — A state of plentifulness. (First attested in the mid 16th century.).
- abundaunt — Obsolete form of abundant.
- academese — pedantic, pretentious, and often confusing academic jargon: a presumably scholarly article written in incomprehensible academese.
- academian — (historical, obsolete) A follower of w Plato. (Attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century.)Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- academics — of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education: academic requirements.
- academies — Plural form of academy.
- academise — to reduce (a subject) to a rigid set of rules, principles, precepts, etc.: futile attempts to academize the visual arts.
- academism — academicism.
- academist — a person belonging to an academy or society, usually of science, art or literature
- academize — to reduce (a subject) to a rigid set of rules, principles, precepts, etc.: futile attempts to academize the visual arts.
- acanthoid — resembling a spine; spiny
- acaricide — any drug or formulation for killing acarids
- acaridian — any mite or tick belonging to the order Acarina
- accademia — an art gallery in Venice housing a collection of paintings by Venetian masters from the 13th to 18th centuries
- accedence — to give consent, approval, or adherence; agree; assent; to accede to a request; to accede to the terms of a contract.
- accending — Present participle of accend.
- accidence — inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc
- accidents — Plural form of accident.
- acclaimed — publicly acknowledged as excellent
- accoladed — any award, honor, or laudatory notice: The play received accolades from the press.
- accolades — Plural form of accolade.
- accolated — (of portraits on a coin, medal, or escutcheon) overlapping and facing in the same direction; conjoined.
- accordant — in conformity or harmony
- accorders — Plural form of accorder.
- according — in proportion; in relation
- accordion — An accordion is a musical instrument in the shape of a fairly large box which you hold in your hands. You play the accordion by pressing keys or buttons on either side while moving the two sides together and apart. Accordions are used especially to play traditional popular music.
- accounted — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- accoutred — equipped or dressed in a particular way
- accredits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accredit.
- accresced — Simple past tense and past participle of accresce.
- accroides — an alcohol-soluble resin, obtained from Australian trees, used in paper manufacturing and as a component of varnishes
- accurized — to improve the accuracy of (a firearm).
- acerbated — Simple past tense and past participle of acerbate.