9-letter words containing a, d, r, e
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- day-liner — a train, boat, etc., having a regularly scheduled route during daylight hours.
- day-trade — to buy and sell a listed security or commodity on the same day, usually on margin, for a quick profit.
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- daydreams — Plural form of daydream.
- daydreamy — Inclined to daydream; scatterbrained or idealistic.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- de la rue — Warren, 1815–89, English astronomer and inventor.
- de morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- de valera — Eamon (ˈeɪmən). 1882–1975, Irish statesman; president of Sinn Féin (1917–26) and of the Dáil (1918–22); formed the Fianna Fáil party (1927); prime minister (1937–48; 1951–54; 1957–59) and president (1959–73) of the Irish Republic
- de varona — Donna, born 1947, U.S. swimmer.
- dead drop — a prearranged secret spot where one espionage agent leaves a message or material for another agent to pick up.
- 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-tree — printed on paper
- deaerator — a piece of apparatus that extracts a gas from a liquid
- dealmaker — A dealmaker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- deaneries — Plural form of deanery.
- dear john — a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fiancé that she is ending their relationship or informing her husband that she wants a divorce: Nothing is worse for a soldier's morale than getting a Dear John.
- dearheart — A term of affection.
- deary me! — an exclamation of surprise or dismay
- death ray — an imaginary ray capable of killing
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- deathtrap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a deathtrap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- deathward — having an inclination or disposition towards death
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- debarrass — to take from (a person) something that causes shame or embarrassment
- debarring — Present participle of debar.
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decagrams — Plural form of decagram.
- decahedra — plural form of singular decahedron: solid figure with ten plane faces
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decameric — Of or pertaining to a decamer.
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- decameter — dekameter
- decametre — ten metres
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decastere — a measure equivalent to ten steres or cubic metres
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.