9-letter words starting with dea
- deacidify — to render (a substance) less acidic
- deaconess — (in the early church and in some modern Churches) a female member of the laity with duties similar to those of a deacon
- deactuate — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- dead ball — a way of referring to the ball when it is not in play and cannot be used by any player, usually because it has travelled beyond a boundary line
- dead beat — a person who deliberately avoids paying debts.
- 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.
- dead data — data that is no longer relevant
- dead drop — a prearranged secret spot where one espionage agent leaves a message or material for another agent to pick up.
- dead duck — If you describe someone or something as a dead duck, you are emphasizing that you think they have absolutely no chance of succeeding.
- dead hand — You can refer to the dead hand of a particular thing when that thing has a bad or depressing influence on a particular situation.
- dead heat — If a race or contest is a dead heat, two or more competitors are joint winners, or are both winning at a particular moment in the race or contest. In American English, you can say that a race or contest is in a dead heat.
- dead lift — a direct lifting without any mechanical assistance, as of a dead weight
- dead load — the intrinsic invariable weight of a structure, such as a bridge. It may also include any permanent loads attached to the structure
- dead loss — a person, thing, or situation that is completely useless or unprofitable
- dead mail — undeliverable and unreturnable mail that is handled in the dead-letter office of the general post office.
- dead meat — If you say that someone is dead meat, you mean that they are in very serious trouble that may result in them being hurt or injured in some way.
- dead spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- dead time — the interval of time immediately following a stimulus, during which an electrical device, component, etc, is insensitive to a further stimulus
- dead tree — (publication, jargon) Paper. Use of this term emphasises the waste of natural resources and limited features available from the printed form of a document compared with an electronic rendition. E.g. "I read the dead tree edition of the Guardian on the train". See also tree-killer.
- dead wire — a wire that is not carrying current
- dead wood — People or things that have been used for a very long time and that are no longer considered to be useful can be referred to as dead wood.
- dead zone — an area of water that cannot support marine life, being virtually devoid of oxygen due to the presence of nitrates that stimulate algae growth
- dead-beat — If you are dead-beat, you are very tired and have no energy left.
- dead-head — To dead-head a plant which is flowering means to remove all the dead flowers from it.
- dead-melt — to melt (steel) until killed.
- dead-spot — Anatomy. a small area on the retina that is insensitive to light due to the interruption, where the optic nerve joins the retina, of the normal pattern of light-sensitive rods and cones.
- dead-tree — printed on paper
- deadbeats — Plural form of deadbeat.
- deadening — A deadening situation destroys people's enthusiasm and imagination.
- deadfalls — Plural form of deadfall.
- deadheads — Plural form of deadhead.
- deadhouse — a mortuary
- deadliest — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlight — a bull's-eye let into the deck or hull of a vessel to admit light to a cabin
- deadlined — Simple past tense and past participle of deadline.
- deadlines — Plural form of deadline.
- deadlocks — Plural form of deadlock.
- deadstick — To land an aircraft without power.
- deadstock — the merchandise or commodities of a shop, etc, that is unsold and generating no income
- deadwoods — Plural form of deadwood.
- deaerator — a piece of apparatus that extracts a gas from a liquid
- deaf-mute — A deaf-mute is someone who cannot hear or speak. This word could cause offence.
- deafblind — unable to hear or see
- deafening — A deafening noise is a very loud noise.
- deal with — When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.
- dealigned — Simple past tense and past participle of dealign.
- dealmaker — A dealmaker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- deamidase — an enzyme that releases the amido group from a compound.
- deamidate — (organic chemistry) To remove an amide functional group from a compound.
- deaminase — an enzyme that breaks down and takes out the amino group from amino compounds
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