9-letter words containing the
- cacoethes — an uncontrollable urge or desire, esp for something harmful; mania
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- cathected — to invest emotion or feeling in (an idea, object, or another person).
- cathectic — of or relating to cathexis
- cathedral — A cathedral is a very large and important church which has a bishop in charge of it.
- cathepsin — a proteolytic enzyme responsible for the autolysis of cells after death
- catheptic — of or relating to enzymes that catalyze autolysis in death or pathological conditions
- catherine — Saint. died 307 ad, legendary Christian martyr of Alexandria, who was tortured on a spiked wheel and beheaded
- catheters — Plural form of catheter.
- clarthead — a slow-witted or stupid person
- cleanthes — ?300–?232 bc, Greek philosopher: succeeded Zeno as head of the Stoic school
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
- decathect — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
- 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.
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- dithelete — a person who believes Christ had two wills, human and divine
- dithelism — the belief that Christ had two wills, human and divine
- dithering — a trembling; vibration.
- duotheism — Belief in and worship in two deities, usually framed as a god and goddess of roughly equal power.
- duotheist — A person who adheres to duotheism.
- dysthesia — an unusual or disagreeable feeling in or on the body compared to crawling or burning
- dysthetic — relating to dysthesia
- eachother — (nonstandard) misspelling of each other Typically used in the context of
- ectotherm — a cold-blooded animal.
- egotheism — The deification of one's own self.
- either-or — presenting an unavoidable need to choose between two alternatives
- eleutheri — a fictitious secret society of free thinkers
- eleuthero — (informal) The shrub Eleutherococcus senticosus, used in traditional medicine.
- embreathe — to breathe in (air)
- enanthema — An ulcer or eruption occurring on a mucus-secreting surface such as the inside of the mouth.
- endotherm — An animal that is dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat; a warm-blooded animal.
- ensheathe — Enclose (an organism, tissue, structure, etc.) in or as in a sheath.
- enswathed — Simple past tense and past participle of enswathe.
- entheogen — A chemical substance, typically of plant origin, that is ingested to produce a nonordinary state of consciousness for religious or spiritual purposes.
- enwreathe — Surround or envelop (something).
- epithecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the epitheca, the upper half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- epithelia — Plural form of epithelium.
- epithesis — (linguistics) The addition of a letter or sound at the end of a word, without changing its meaning, as in \"numb\" for \"num\" or \"whilst\" for \"whiles\".
- epithetic — Of or relating to epithets.
- erythemic — having the characteristics of erythema
- esthetics — (US) alternative spelling of aesthetics.
- ethelbert — Saint. ?552–616 ad, king of Kent (560–616): converted to Christianity by St Augustine; issued the earliest known code of English laws. Feast day: Feb 24 or 25
- ethelwulf — died 858 ad, king of Wessex (839–858)
- ethergate — Multi-protocol Ethernet gateway made by LRT. See Computer Systems, October 1985.
- etherical — relating to ether
- etherised — Simple past tense and past participle of etherise.