9-letter words containing d, e, n, r, a, c
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- ear candy — Slang. pleasant, melodic pop music.
- ecuadoran — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- ediacaran — of, denoting, or formed in the last 50 million years of the Neoproterozoic era, during which a new texturally and chemically distinctive carbonate layer appeared, indicating climatic change
- encreased — Simple past tense and past participle of encrease.
- endocarps — Plural form of endocarp.
- endurance — The fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way.
- entranced — Held at attention, as if by magic.
- eradicant — something that eradicates
- esclandre — (archaic) Infamy.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- increased — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increated — Simple past tense and past participle of increate.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- knackered — exhausted; very tired: He is really knackered after work.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- nectaried — having a nectary or nectaries
- nondancer — a person who does not dance
- 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".
- oceanward — Toward the ocean.
- ordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
- phonecard — calling card (def 3).
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- readvance — to advance again or further
- red china — China, People's Republic of.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reductant — a reducing agent which as it is oxidized is capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance
- sarcodine — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scamander — ancient name of the river Menderes.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- theandric — relating to the state of being both divine and human, esp pertaining to Christ
- trancedly — in a trancelike manner
- transcend — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- transduce — to convert (energy) from one form into another.
- trenchard — Hugh Montague, 1st Viscount, 1873–1956, British Royal Air Force marshal.