9-letter words containing d, a, r, t
- practiced — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- pre-audit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- pre-death — the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Compare brain death.
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- predatory — Zoology. preying upon other organisms for food.
- predebate — occurring or produced before a given debate; of or pertaining to the period leading up to a given debate
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- premiated — to grant a prize or an award to.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- pro-rated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- pro-trade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- proctodea — parts of the anus
- quadrants — Plural form of quadrant.
- quadrated — Simple past tense and past participle of quadrate.
- quadrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadrate.
- quadratic — square.
- quadratus — Any of several roughly square or rectangular muscles, e.g., in the abdomen, thigh, and eye socket.
- quartered — being one of four equal or approximately equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
- radectomy — excision of part or all of the root of a tooth.
- radiality — the state of being radial in form or structure
- radiantly — emitting rays of light; shining; bright: the radiant sun; radiant colors.
- radiately — In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a centre.
- radiating — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- radiation — Physics. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and absorbed by another body. the energy transferred by these processes.
- radiative — giving off radiation.
- radio set — an apparatus that receives radio signals
- radiocast — a radiobroadcast.
- radiosity — (graphics) A method for rendering a view of a three-dimensional scene that provides realistic lighting effects, such as interobject reflections and color bleeding. Radiosity methods are computationally intense, due to the use of linear systems of equations and the spatial complexity of large scenes.
- radiothon — an on-the-air radio campaign, often lasting 24 hours or more, designed to raise money for a radio station, charity, the arts, etc., as from listeners phoning in and pledging specific donations, sometimes in exchange for gifts or premiums.
- rag trade — The rag trade is the business and industry of making and selling clothes, especially women's clothes.
- rain date — an alternative date for an outdoor event in case it is postponed or interrupted by rain.
- rancidity — having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils: rancid butter.
- rat guard — a disk of sheet metal fitted around a hawser to prevent rats from boarding a vessel moored at a dock.
- rat-arsed — drunk
- ratcheted — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- rate card — a list showing the rates charged by a magazine, newspaper, radio or television station, etc., for various types of advertising.
- rattailed — having a tail or feature like a rat's tail
- re-adjust — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
- read into — If you read a meaning into something, you think it is there although it may not actually be there.
- ready-cut — (of wood, tiles, glass, etc) cut to size before being sold
- red alert — (in military or civilian defense) the most urgent form of alert, signaling that an enemy attack is believed to be imminent.
- red earth — a clayey zonal soil of tropical savanna lands, formed by extensive chemical weathering, coloured by iron compounds, and less strongly leached than laterite
- red giant — a star in an intermediate stage of evolution, characterized by a large volume, low surface temperature, and reddish hue.
- red heart — a treelike Californian shrub, Ceanothus spinosus, of the buckthorn family, having pale blue or white flowers.