9-letter words containing en
- descender — a person or thing that descends
- desinence — an ending or termination, esp an inflectional ending of a word
- desipient — silly; foolish
- despenser — Hugh le, Earl of Winchester. 1262–1326, English statesman, a favourite of Edward II. Together with his son Hugh, the Younger (?1290–1326), he was executed by the king's enemies
- detention — Detention is when someone is arrested or put into prison, especially for political reasons.
- détentist — a supporter of détente; someone who tries to ease political tensions
- detergent — Detergent is a chemical substance, usually in the form of a powder or liquid, which is used for washing things such as clothes or dishes.
- determent — to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
- 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.
- detriment — If something happens to the detriment of something or to a person's detriment, it causes harm or damage to them.
- devilment — devilish or mischievous conduct
- diapensia — An evergreen arctic shrub, Diapensia lapponica.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dicentric — an abnormal chromosome with two centromeres
- dictyogen — a monocotyledon with reticulated leaves
- different — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- diffident — lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
- diffluent — tending to flow off or away.
- difluence — diffluence.
- digenesis — alternation of generations.
- digenetic — alternation of generations.
- diligence — constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind.
- diligency — (obsolete) diligence; care.
- dilligent — Misspelling of diligent.
- dimension — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- diosgenin — a crystalline compound, C 27 H 42 O 3 , the aglycone of dioscin: used in the synthesis of steroidal hormones, as of progesterone.
- diphenyl- — containing two phenyl groups in each molecule
- diplotene — a late stage of prophase during meiosis, in which the chromatid pairs of the tetrads begin to separate and chiasmata can be seen.
- disburden — to remove a burden from; rid of a burden.
- disenable — to deprive of ability; make unable; prevent.
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disendows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disendow.
- disengage — to release from attachment or connection; loosen; unfasten: to disengage a clutch.
- disenroll — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disentail — to free (an estate) from entail.
- disentomb — to remove from the tomb; disinter.
- disfluent — lacking fluency in speech
- disinvent — to undo the invention of; to reverse the existence of.
- disorient — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- dispended — to pay out; expend; spend.
- dispensed — Simple past tense and past participle of dispense.
- dispenser — a person or thing that dispenses.
- dispenses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispense.
- disproven — Alternative irregular form of the Past participle of disprove.
- dissensus — Widespread dissent.
- dissented — to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree (often followed by from): Two of the justices dissented from the majority decision.
- dissenter — a person who dissents, as from an established church, political party, or majority opinion.
- dissident — a person who dissents.
- dissogeny — the condition in ctenophores in which an individual has two periods of sexual maturity, one in the larval and one in the adult stage.
- distended — increased, as in size, volume, etc.; expanded; dilated: the distended nostrils of the terrified horse.