9-letter words starting with d
- deceptory — inclined to deceive
- decerning — Present participle of decern.
- decertify — to withdraw or remove a certificate or certification from (a person, organization, or country)
- decession — a going away, lessening, or weakening
- déchéance — the act of forfeiting something
- dechunker — chunker
- decidable — able to be decided
- decide on — If you decide on something or decide upon something, you choose it from two or more possibilities.
- decidedly — Decidedly means to a great extent and in a way that is very obvious.
- decidence — A falling off.
- deciduate — having or characterized by a decidua.
- deciduous — A deciduous tree or bush is one that loses its leaves in the autumn every year.
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- deciliter — one tenth of a liter (3.376 fluid ounces or 6.1024 cubic inches)
- decilitre — one tenth of a litre
- decillion — (in Britain, France, and Germany) the number represented as one followed by 60 zeros (1060)
- decimally — by tens
- decimated — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimeter — one tenth of a meter (3.937 inches)
- decimetre — one tenth of a metre
- deciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decipher.
- decisions — A conclusion or resolution reached after consideration.
- decistere — a measure equivalent to one tenth of a stere
- deck beam — a stiffening deck member supported at its extremities by knee connections to frames or bulkheads
- deck bolt — a flat-headed bolt for fastening down deck planking.
- deck gang — (on a ship) the sailors who are on duty but not on watch.
- deck hand — a seaman assigned various duties, such as mooring and cargo handling, on the deck of a ship
- deck hook — hook1 (def 16).
- deck load — cargo carried on an open deck of a ship.
- deck over — to complete the construction of the upper deck between the bulwarks of (a vessel)
- deck shoe — Deck shoes are flat casual shoes made of canvas or leather.
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- declaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaim.
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- declassee — (of a woman) having lost social standing or status
- declinant — a person who is declining or diminishing in luck or wealth
- declinate — (esp of plant parts) descending from the horizontal in a curve; drooping
- decliners — Plural form of decliner.
- declining — deteriorating gradually, as in quality, health, or character
- declinist — a person who believes that something is in decline
- declivity — a downward slope, esp of the ground
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- declutter — to simplify or get rid of mess, disorder, complications, etc, from
- decmate i — (computer) The first in DEC's series of miniaturised PDP-8 computers based on the Intersil 6120 [Harris 6120?] microprocessor and dedicated to wordprocessing. The DECmate was DEC's original competition for the IBM PC. The DECmate I was introduced in 1980 as the successor to the WT78. The processor ran at 10 MHz, and was housed in a VT100 CRT terminal. It was a very limted model, no EAE option was available, memory was 32 Kwords. It used the RX02 8" dual floppy drive. Options were the DP278-A and -B communication ports and RL278: 1 to 4 RL02 cartridge disk drives.