9-letter words containing ia
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- dianetics — A discipline devised by w L. Ron Hubbard designed to heal psychosomatic illnesses by cleansing the mind of engrams.
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- diapasons — Plural form of diapason.
- diapauses — Plural form of diapause.
- diapensia — An evergreen arctic shrub, Diapensia lapponica.
- diapering — Present participle of diaper.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.
- diaphragm — Your diaphragm is a muscle between your lungs and your stomach. It is used when you breathe.
- diaphyses — Plural form of diaphysis.
- diaphysis — the shaft of a long bone
- diapirism — the existence of diapirs
- diapyesis — the discharge of pus
- diapyetic — of or pertaining to diapyesis
- diarising — Present participle of diarise.
- diaristic — stylistically like a diary
- diarrheal — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diarrheas — Plural form of diarrhea.
- diarrheic — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of diarrhea.
- diarrhoea — If someone has diarrhoea, a lot of liquid faeces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- diasporas — Plural form of diaspora.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- diastases — Medicine/Medical. the separation of normally joined parts, as in the dislocation of bones, without fracture.
- diastasis — the separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
- diastatic — Biochemistry. of or relating to diastase. having the properties of diastase: diastatic action.
- diastemic — a minor hiatus in an orderly succession of sedimentary rocks.
- diastolic — (of blood pressure) indicating the arterial pressure during the interval between heartbeats.
- diasystem — a linguistic system forming a common denominator for a group or set of dialects.
- diathermy — local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes
- diatheses — Plural form of diathesis.
- diathesis — a hereditary or acquired susceptibility of the body to one or more diseases
- diathetic — Pathology. a constitutional predisposition or tendency, as to a particular disease or other abnormal state of the body or mind.
- diatomist — a person specializing in the study of diatoms
- diatomite — a soft very fine-grained whitish rock consisting of the siliceous remains of diatoms deposited in the ocean or in ponds or lakes. It is used as an absorbent, filtering medium, insulator, filler, etc
- diatretum — a type of decorative Roman bowl or cup made of glass
- diatribes — Plural form of diatribe.
- diatropic — the tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.
- diazeutic — Alternative form of diazeuctic.
- diazeuxis — the separation of two tetrachords by the interval of a tone
- diazonium — of, consisting of, or containing the group, Ar-N:N-, where Ar is an aryl group
- diazotize — to cause (an aryl amine) to react with nitrous acid to produce a diazonium salt
- diazotype — a print produced by the diazo process.
- diazoxide — a substance, C 8 H 7 ClN 2 O 2 S, having potent antihypertensive action and used to reduce blood pressure in hypertensive crisis.
- dietarian — Somebody following a diet, a dieter.
- dietician — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- dietitian — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- difflugia — a genus of ameboid protozoans that construct a shell of cemented sand grains.
- diglossia — the widespread existence within a society of sharply divergent formal and informal varieties of a language each used in different social contexts or for performing different functions, as the existence of Katharevusa and Demotic in modern Greece.