9-letter words containing a, k, e, r
- darknesse — Archaic spelling of darkness.
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- 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.
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- 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.
- deer park — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- dekagrams — Plural form of dekagram.
- 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
- demarking — demarcate.
- disembark — to go ashore from a ship.
- drag rake — a heavy rake with closely set, hooklike teeth, for use in digging for clams.
- drake fly — mayfly (def 2).
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
- dressmake — to make dresses
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- drugmaker — a person or company that manufactures pharmaceutical products.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- earcockle — A disease of wheat in which the ears blacken and contract.
- earmarked — any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic: The mayor's statement had all the earmarks of dirty politics.
- earthlike — Of a planet, resembling the Earth.
- earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
- east york — city in SE Ontario, Canada: part of metropolitan Toronto: pop. 108,000
- easy mark — sb easily targeted or victimized
- eckermann — Johann Peter [yoh-hahn pey-tuh r] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1792–1854, German writer and literary assistant to Goethe.
- ecofreaks — Plural form of ecofreak.
- ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
- embarking — Present participle of embark.
- enranckle — to upset, make irate
- entertake — (transitive, obsolete) To entertain; to receive.
- ethertalk — (networking) An Apple Computer network standard used to extend an AppleTalk network across an Ethernet network. Compare LocalTalk.
- eukaryote — An organism consisting of a cell or cells in which the genetic material is DNA in the form of chromosomes contained within a distinct nucleus. Eukaryotes include all living organisms other than the eubacteria and archaebacteria.
- fairylike — Resembling a fairy or some aspect of one.
- falsework — framework for supporting a structure under construction that is not yet capable of supporting itself.
- farcelike — Resembling or characteristic of farce.
- farm-bike — a motorcycle built for off-road travel
- farnarkel — to spend time or act in a careless or inconsequential manner; waste time
- fernbrake — a thicket or dense growth of ferns.
- filemaker — (software) A database application developed by Claris. It is currently the leading database application for the Macintosh and is the second most popular standalone package for Windows.
- filmmaker — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- firebacks — Plural form of fireback.
- firebreak — a strip of plowed or cleared land made to check the spread of a prairie or forest fire.