9-letter words that end in de
- cetrimide — a quaternary ammonium compound used as a detergent and, having powerful antiseptic properties, for sterilizing surgical instruments, cleaning wounds, etc
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chaminade — Cécile Louise Stéphanie [sey-seel lweez stey-fa-nee] /seɪˈsil lwiz steɪ faˈni/ (Show IPA), 1857–1944, French pianist and composer.
- cheapside — street and district of London; in the Middle Ages it was a marketplace
- cirripede — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- city code — (in Britain) short for City Code on Takeovers and Mergers: a code laid down in 1968 (later modified) to control takeover bids and mergers
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- cliffside — The side of a cliff.
- collonade — Alternative spelling of colonnade.
- colonnade — A colonnade is a row of evenly-spaced columns.
- comm mode — (chat) (Or "com mode") An ITS feature supporting interactive on-line chat.
- cottonade — a coarse fabric of cotton or mixed fibres, used for work clothes, etc
- courtside — the area closest to the court
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- day-trade — to buy and sell a listed security or commodity on the same day, usually on margin, for a quick profit.
- dead code — (programming) (Or "infeasible path", "grunge") Any part of a program that can never be accessed because all calls to it have been removed, or because it is guarded by a control structure that provably must always transfer control somewhere else. The presence of dead code may reveal either logical errors due to alterations in the program or significant changes in the assumptions and environment of the program (see also software rot); a good compiler should report dead code so a maintainer can think about what it means. Sometimes it simply means that an *extremely* defensive programmer has inserted can't happen tests which really can't happen - yet. Synonym grunge.
- demimonde — (esp in the 19th century) those women considered to be outside respectable society, esp on account of sexual promiscuity
- demo mode — (Sun) 1. The state of being heads down in order to finish code in time for a demo, usually due yesterday. 2. (games) (Or "attract mode") A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a portion of the game. Some serious apps have a demo mode they use as a screen saver, or may go through a demo mode on startup (for example, the Microsoft Windows opening screen - which lets you impress your neighbors without actually having to put up with Microsloth Windows).
- desuetude — the condition of not being in use or practice; disuse
- deuteride — a compound of deuterium with some other element. It is analogous to a hydride
- 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.
- dibromide — a chemical compound that contains two bromine atoms per molecule
- dipeptide — a peptide that yields two amino acids on hydrolysis.
- disillude — to remove illusions from
- disulfide — (in inorganic chemistry) a sulfide containing two atoms of sulfur, as carbon disulfide, CS 2 .
- downgrade — a downward slope, especially of a road.
- downslide — a decline or downward trend, as of prices.
- dropsonde — an instrument similar to a radiosonde that is attached to a parachute and released from an aircraft.
- dulcitude — Sweetness.
- east side — the eastern section of Manhattan, in New York City, lying to the east of Fifth Avenue.
- ebrillade — a tug on the rein when a horse will not turn
- eigenmode — a normal mode in an oscillating system, being one in which all parts of the system are oscillating with the same frequency
- electrode — A conductor through which electricity enters or leaves an object, substance, or region.
- elmaguide — (language) The metalanguage used for interpretation of user actions in the ELMA compiler writer developed at Tallinn Poly Institute in 1978.
- embassade — an embassy
- encainide — An antiarrhythmic drug.
- esplanade — A long, open, level area, typically beside the sea, along which people may walk for pleasure.
- estrapade — The rearing, plunging, and kicking actions of a horse trying to get rid of its rider.
- ethnocide — The deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group.
- etoposide — (medicine) A derivative of podophyllotoxin that is used in the treatment of some cancers by inhibiting mitosis.
- everglade — A marshy tract of land that is mostly under water and covered with tall grass.
- fairtrade — Produced in such a way that all producers of the product receive a fair wage for their work.
- felt side — the top side of a sheet of paper, the side against the felt rollers during manufacture, normally preferred for printing.
- flip side — the reverse and usually less popular side of a phonograph record.
- floodtide — the tide when it has risen from low to high water
- foeticide — feticide.