9-letter words containing d
- addendums — a thing to be added; an addition.
- adderwort — the bistort, a herbaceous flowering plant, Polygonum bistorta, of the dock family
- addicting — a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance: a drug addict.
- addiction — Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
- addictive — If a drug is addictive, people who take it cannot stop taking it.
- addington — Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth. 1757–1844, British statesman; prime minister (1801–04) and Home Secretary (1812–21)
- additions — Plural form of addition.
- additives — Plural form of additive.
- addlehead — (colloquial) A foolish or dull-witted person.
- addlement — a process or state of confusion
- addleness — The state or quality of being addle.
- addlepate — Alternative form of addle pate.
- addressed — a speech or written statement, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons: the president's address on the state of the economy.
- addressee — The addressee of a letter or parcel is the person or company that it is addressed to.
- addresser — a speech or written statement, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons: the president's address on the state of the economy.
- addresses — a speech or written statement, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons: the president's address on the state of the economy.
- addressor — a speech or written statement, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons: the president's address on the state of the economy.
- adducting — Present participle of adduct.
- adduction — an adducing or citing
- adductive — of a nature that leads towards a change
- adductors — Plural form of adductor.
- ademption — the failure of a specific legacy, as by a testator disposing of the subject matter in his lifetime
- adenoidal — having the nasal tones or impaired breathing of one with enlarged adenoids
- adenology — the branch of medicine dealing with the development, structure, function, and diseases of glands.
- adenomata — a benign tumor originating in a secretory gland.
- adenosine — a nucleoside formed by the condensation of adenine and ribose. It is present in all living cells in a combined form, as in ribonucleic acids. Formula: C10H13N5O4
- adenotomy — (anatomy) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.
- adenylate — (organic chemistry) The dissociated anion present in adenylic acid;' adenosine monophosphate.
- adeodatus — Saint, died a.d. 676, pope 672–676.
- adephagia — bulimia (def 1).
- adeptness — very skilled; proficient; expert: an adept juggler.
- adequated — Simple past tense and past participle of adequate.
- adherable — having the ability to adhere
- adherence — Adherence is the fact of adhering to a particular rule, agreement, or belief.
- adherents — Plural form of adherent.
- adhesions — Plural form of adhesion.
- adhesives — Plural form of adhesive.
- adhocracy — management that responds to urgent problems rather than planning to avoid them
- adiabatic — (of a thermodynamic process) taking place without loss or gain of heat
- adiaphora — matters of indifference
- adigranth — Granth.
- adipocere — a waxlike fatty substance formed during the decomposition of corpses
- adipocyte — a fat cell that accumulates and stores fats
- adipokine — (biochemistry) Any of several cytokines secreted by adipose tissue.
- adiposity — the state of being fat; obesity
- adjacence — the state of being adjacent
- adjacency — the quality or state of being adjacent; nearness
- adjection — Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added.
- adjective — An adjective is a word such as 'big', 'dead', or 'financial' that describes a person or thing, or gives extra information about them. Adjectives usually come before nouns or after link verbs.
- adjoining — being in contact; connected or neighbouring