9-letter words containing si
- desilting — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- desinence — an ending or termination, esp an inflectional ending of a word
- desipient — silly; foolish
- desirable — Something that is desirable is worth having or doing because it is useful, necessary, or popular.
- desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- desireful — Filled with desire; eager.
- desisting — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desitions — Plural form of desition.
- desk-size — of a size suitable for use on a desk: a desk-size dictionary.
- despising — Present participle of despise.
- dessicate — Misspelling of desiccate.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- detersive — having cleansing power
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- devadasis — Plural form of devadasi.
- devisions — Plural form of devision: obsolete spelling of divisions.
- diabesity — Used to refer to a form of diabetes that typically develops in later life and is associated with being obese.
- diaclasis — (medicine) Osteoclasis.
- diaeresis — the mark ¨, in writing placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that it is to be pronounced separately rather than forming a diphthong with the first, as in some spellings of coöperate, naïve, etc
- diagnosis — Diagnosis is the discovery and naming of what is wrong with someone who is ill or with something that is not working properly.
- diapensia — An evergreen arctic shrub, Diapensia lapponica.
- diaphysis — the shaft of a long bone
- diapyesis — the discharge of pus
- diarising — Present participle of diarise.
- diastasis — the separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
- diathesis — a hereditary or acquired susceptibility of the body to one or more diseases
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort
- diesinker — an engraver of dies for stamping or embossing.
- diffusing — Present participle of diffuse.
- diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- diffusive — tending to diffuse; characterized by diffusion.
- digenesis — alternation of generations.
- 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.
- diglossic — 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.
- 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.
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- dionysian — of, relating to, or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus.
- dionysius — ("the Elder") 431?–367 b.c, Greek soldier: tyrant of Syracuse 405–367.
- diopsidic — of, relating to, or belonging to diopside
- diphysite — a person who believes that in Christ two distinct natures, the human and the divine, existed together
- diseasing — Present participle of disease.
- disillude — to remove illusions from
- disimmure — to release from confinement
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- disinfest — to rid of insects, rodents, etc.
- disinform — to give or supply disinformation to.
- disinhume — to disinter.
- disinters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disinter.
- disinvent — to undo the invention of; to reverse the existence of.