9-letter words containing a, r, o, d
- courtyard — A courtyard is an open area of ground which is surrounded by buildings or walls.
- coverdale — Miles. 1488–1568, the first translator of the complete Bible into English (1535)
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- crinoidal — (zoology) Relating to, consisting of, or containing crinoids.
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crossroad — a road that crosses another road
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- dado rail — a moulding at about waist height on an interior wall, used for decoration and to protect the wall
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- damnatory — threatening or occasioning condemnation
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- dampproof — resistant to dampness or the effects of dampness.
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- dannebrog — the Danish flag
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- darkrooms — Plural form of darkroom.
- darnation — Alternative form of tarnation.
- dartboard — A dartboard is a circular board with numbers on it which is used as the target in a game of darts.
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- dashboard — The dashboard in a car is the panel facing the driver's seat where most of the instruments and switches are.
- data fork — Macintosh file system
- date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
- 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
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- de morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- 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.
- deaerator — a piece of apparatus that extracts a gas from a liquid
- 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.
- 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.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- 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
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- 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.