9-letter words containing d, a, r, e
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamfered — a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45° angle to the adjacent principal faces. Compare bevel.
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- chandlery — the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- chartered — Chartered is used to indicate that someone, such as an accountant or a surveyor, has formally qualified in their profession.
- chattered — to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber.
- cheerlead — to lead a crowd in formal cheers at sports events
- childcare — Childcare refers to looking after children, and to the facilities which help parents to do so.
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- clabbered — Simple past tense and past participle of clabber.
- clambered — an act or instance of clambering.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- clarified — Clarified butter has been made clear by being heated.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- clarthead — a slow-witted or stupid person
- clattered — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- cleareyed — having clear eyes or vision
- clearweed — a plant from the nettle family
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- cloud ear — tree ear
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- coarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of coarsen.
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- cocreated — Simple past tense and past participle of cocreate.
- codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
- cofferdam — a watertight structure, usually of sheet piling, that encloses an area under water, pumped dry to enable construction work to be carried out. Below a certain depth a caisson is required
- colanders — Plural form of colander.
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- commander — A commander is an officer in charge of a military operation or organization.
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- compander — a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus
- comradely — If you do something in a comradely way, you are being pleasant and friendly to other people.
- comradery — camaraderie or comradeship
- consarned — confounded; damned.
- copy-read — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- cordately — In a cordate form.
- corelated — to correlate.
- coriander — Coriander is a plant with seeds that are used as a spice and leaves that are used as a herb.
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- coronated — having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
- corralled — an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
- costarred — Simple past tense and past participle of costar.