9-letter words containing d, e, n, r, o, a
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- dannebrog — the Danish flag
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- de morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- de varona — Donna, born 1947, U.S. swimmer.
- dear john — a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fiancé that she is ending their relationship or informing her husband that she wants a divorce: Nothing is worse for a soldier's morale than getting a Dear John.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- demeanors — Plural form of demeanor.
- demeanour — Your demeanour is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- deodorant — Deodorant is a substance that you can use on your body to hide or prevent the smell of sweat.
- detonator — A detonator is a small amount of explosive or a piece of electrical or electronic equipment which is used to explode a bomb or other explosive device.
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- dna probe — a technique for identifying a segment of DNA, using a known sequence of nucleotide bases from a DNA strand to detect a complementary sequence in the sample by means of base pairing.
- doggerman — a sailor on a dogger
- dognapper — Agent noun of dognap; one who dognaps.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- downgrade — a downward slope, especially of a road.
- downrange — (of a missile, space launch, etc.) traveling in a specified direction away from the launch site and toward the target.
- dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.
- dragonize — to turn into a dragon
- dragooned — Simple past tense and past participle of dragoon.
- dragooner — (obsolete) A dragoon.
- duodenary — duodecimal.
- ealdorman — alderman.
- ealdormen — Plural form of ealdorman.
- ecuadoran — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- emendator — One who emends or critically edits.
- enamorado — a beloved one; lover
- enamoured — Alternative spelling of enamored.
- end organ — the expanded end of a peripheral motor or sensory nerve
- endeavors — Try hard to do or achieve something.
- endeavour — Standard spelling of endeavor.
- endocarps — Plural form of endocarp.
- esdraelon — a plain in N Israel, east of Mount Carmel
- farandole — a lively dance, of Provençal origin, in which all the dancers join hands and execute various figures.
- floridean — of or relating to members of the botanical genus Florideae (red algae)
- forehands — Plural form of forehand.
- forelands — Plural form of foreland.
- forenamed — named before; mentioned before in the same writing or speech; aforementioned.
- forwander — to wander far
- gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- geraldton — a seaport in W Australia.
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- goldarned — goddamn (used as a euphemism in expressions of anger, disgust, surprise, etc.).
- goosander — a common merganser, Mergus merganser, of Eurasia and North America.
- grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- groundage — a tax levied on ships that anchor in a port.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.