9-letter words containing d, e, c, r
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- larvacide — Alternative spelling of larvicide.
- larvicide — an agent for killing larvae.
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- liar dice — a gambling game in which the throw of five dice by each player is concealed from the opponent and bluffing is permitted
- lyricised — to write lyrics.
- macerated — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- macrocode — a single code that contains a set of instructions.
- macrodome — a dome the faces of which are parallel to the greater lateral axis.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- marcelled — Simple past tense and past participle of marcel.
- mascarade — Alternative form of masquerade.
- mascaraed — a substance used as a cosmetic to color the eyelashes and eyebrows.
- massacred — Simple past tense and past participle of massacre.
- matricide — the act of killing one's mother.
- mediciner — a physician
- mediocris — (of a cumulus cloud) of medium height and often lacking a distinctive summit.
- mercified — Simple past tense and past participle of mercify.
- microcode — one or more microinstructions.
- microdose — (medicine) A very low dose (especially of radiation therapy).
- microreid — /mi:'kroh-reed/ See bogosity.
- mid-price — at a medium or average price; not particularly expensive nor particularly cheap
- midcourse — the middle of a course.
- midpriced — Alternative spelling of mid-priced.
- miscredit — (transitive) To discredit.
- misdirect — to direct or address wrongly or incorrectly: to misdirect a person; to misdirect a letter.
- mispriced — Simple past tense and past participle of misprice.
- misrecord — (transitive) To record incorrectly.
- motorcade — a procession or parade of automobiles or other motor vehicles.
- muckender — (obsolete) A handkerchief.
- muckraked — Simple past tense and past participle of muckrake.
- mudsucker — a goby, Gillichthys mirabilis, of California, used as bait.
- mx record — Mail Exchange Record
- myrmecoid — ant-like
- neck cord — lash1 (def 7).
- nectaried — having a nectary or nectaries
- noncredit — (of academic courses) carrying or conferring no official academic credit in a particular program or toward a particular degree or diploma.
- nondancer — a person who does not dance
- nondirect — Not direct.
- nonsacred — Not sacred.
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- obcordate — heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end, as a leaf.
- oceanward — Toward the ocean.
- octahedra — Plural form of octahedron.
- officered — Simple past tense and past participle of officer.
- on credit — with payment to be made at a future date