9-letter words containing a, d, r, t
- dastardly — If you describe an action as dastardly, you mean it is wicked and intended to hurt someone.
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- data fork — Macintosh file system
- data mart — (database) A type of data warehouse designed primarily to address a specific function or department's needs, as opposed to a data warehouse which is traditionally meant to address the needs of the organisation from an enterprise perspective. In addition, a data mart often uses aggregation or summarisation of the data to enhance query performance. However, it is important to maintain the ability to access the underlying base data to enable drill-down analysis as necessary.
- data rate — data transfer rate
- date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- date rape — Date rape is when a man rapes a woman whom he has met socially.
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- day-trade — to buy and sell a listed security or commodity on the same day, usually on margin, for a quick profit.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- 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-tree — printed on paper
- deaerator — a piece of apparatus that extracts a gas from a liquid
- dearheart — A term of affection.
- 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
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decameter — dekameter
- decametre — ten metres
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decastere — a measure equivalent to ten steres or cubic metres
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
- decorated — (often initial capital letter) of pertaining to, or characteristic of the English gothic architecture of the late 13th through the late 14th centuries, characterized by curvilinear tracery, elaborate ornamental sculpture and vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques.
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- decorator — A decorator is a person whose job is to paint houses or put wallpaper up.
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decurtate — Shortened, curtailed.
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deepwater — having or taking place in deep water
- defaulter — A defaulter is someone who does not do something that they are legally supposed to do, such as make a payment at a particular time, or appear in a court of law.
- defeature — to blemish or disfigure (a person or thing)
- defecator — One who defecates.
- defibrate — to break (wood, paper, garbage, etc.) into fibrous components; reduce to fibers.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deflorate — (of a plant) having lost its flowers
- degrative — (chemistry) of something causing a cell or organism to degrade.
- dehydrate — When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it.
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal
- dekameter — ten meters, or one tenth of a hectometer (32.808 feet): abbrev. dam
- del sarto — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- delamater — Cornelius Henry, 1821–89, U.S. mechanical engineer and shipbuilder.
- delegator — a person who delegates