9-letter words containing a, n, e, r
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- dandering — Present participle of dander.
- dangerman — (sports, British) A player on an opposing side who poses a significant threat.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- dannebrog — the Danish flag
- darkeners — Plural form of darkener.
- darkeness — Obsolete form of darkness.
- darkening — Present participle of darken.
- darknesse — Archaic spelling of darkness.
- darnedest — (euphemistic) See damnedest.
- 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.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- de morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- de varona — Donna, born 1947, U.S. swimmer.
- 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.
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- debarring — Present participle of debar.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- 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
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- defraying — Present participle of defray.
- degarnish — to remove ornamentation from (something)
- degearing — the process in which a company replaces some or all of its fixed-interest loan stock with ordinary shares
- degrading — causing humiliation; debasing
- dehra dun — a city in N India, the capital of Uttarakhand (formerly Uttaranchal): Indian military academy (1932). Pop: 447 808 (2001)
- deianeira — a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules, whom she killed unwittingly by giving him a shirt that had been dipped in the poisoned blood of Nessus.
- deliriant — involving or causing delirium.
- demarking — demarcate.
- demeanors — Plural form of demeanor.
- demeanour — Your demeanour is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- demeanure — Obsolete form of demeanor.
- demeraran — originating from or native to Demerara
- denatured — Having been deprived of its nature, having had its nature changed.
- denatures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denature.
- denervate — to deprive (a tissue or organ) of its nerve supply
- denigrate — If you denigrate someone or something, you criticize them unfairly or insult them.
- denitrate — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which a compound loses a nitro or nitrate group, nitrogen dioxide, or nitric acid
- deodorant — Deodorant is a substance that you can use on your body to hide or prevent the smell of sweat.
- dépanneur — (in Quebec) a convenience store
- departing — to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today. The train departs at 10:52.
- depraving — Present participle of deprave.