9-letter words containing d, e, h, i, r
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- disrelish — to have a distaste for; dislike.
- disshiver — to break in pieces
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- dithering — a trembling; vibration.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- doughtier — Comparative form of doughty.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- drenching — to wet thoroughly; soak.
- drillhole — a hole drilled in the ground, usually for exploratory purposes
- droshkies — Plural form of droshky.
- echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- eldership — Seniority; the state or condition of being older.
- endorheic — (of a lake or basin) Internally drained; having no outlet.
- endorphin — Any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological functions. They are peptides that activate the body’s opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect.
- enhydrite — a type of mineral containing water
- enshrined — Simple past tense and past participle of enshrine.
- ephedrine — A crystalline alkaloid drug obtained from some ephedras. It causes constriction of the blood vessels and widening of the bronchial passages and is used to relieve asthma and hay fever.
- ephemerid — (zoology) Any member of the Ephemeridae.
- eriophyid — a type of microscopic mite that causes plant damage
- erythroid — Of or relating to erythrocytes.
- etherised — Simple past tense and past participle of etherise.
- etherized — Simple past tense and past participle of etherize.
- euthyroid — having a thyroid gland that functions normally
- faidherbe — Louis Léon César. 1818–89, French soldier and governor of Senegal (1854–65); founder of Dakar
- freighted — goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.
- friedrich — a male given name.
- friendish — Like, or relating to a friend.
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- garnished — Simple past tense and past participle of garnish.
- graphited — Modified by the addition of graphite.
- haberdine — a cod that has been dried and salted
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hairdryer — (chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- hand-ride — to ride (a horse) in a race without using a whip or spurs, urging it on with only the hands.
- handwrite — to write (something) by hand.
- hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- harddrive — Alternative form of hard drive.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- hardiment — hardihood.
- hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
- hardliner — Alternative spelling of hard-liner.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- hardwired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- hardwires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hardwire.