9-letter words containing d, e, p, r
- desparate — Misspelling of desperate.
- despenser — Hugh le, Earl of Winchester. 1262–1326, English statesman, a favourite of Edward II. Together with his son Hugh, the Younger (?1290–1326), he was executed by the king's enemies
- desperado — A desperado is someone who does illegal, violent things without worrying about the danger.
- desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
- despoiler — to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- developer — A developer is a person or a company that buys land and builds houses, offices, shops, or factories on it, or buys existing buildings and makes them more modern.
- devonport — a city in N Tasmania.
- diapering — Present participle of diaper.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- dioptrate — (of a compound eye) divided by a transverse line
- dipperful — (US) As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dipterist — an expert on flies belonging to the order Diptera
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disappear — to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- discerped — Simple past tense and past participle of discerp.
- disparage — to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.
- dispauper — to divest of the status of a person having the privileges of a pauper, as of public support or of legal rights as a pauper.
- dispeller — to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
- dispenser — a person or thing that dispenses.
- dispersal — The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.
- dispersed — Simple past tense and past participle of disperse.
- disperser — (chemistry) a substance that stabilizes a dispersion; an emulsifier.
- disperses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disperse.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- disported — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disposure — disposal; disposition.
- dispraise — to speak of as undeserving or unworthy; censure; disparage.
- disprefer — (transitive, chiefly, linguistics) To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives.
- disprized — to hold in small esteem; disdain.
- disproove — Obsolete form of disprove.
- disproved — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disproven — Alternative irregular form of the Past participle of disprove.
- disprover — One who disproves.
- disproves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disprove.
- dispursed — Simple past tense and past participle of dispurse.
- dispurvey — to strip of equipment or provisions
- disputers — Plural form of disputer.
- disrepair — the condition of needing repair; an impaired or neglected state.
- disrepute — bad repute; low regard; disfavor (usually preceded by in or into): Some literary theories have fallen into disrepute.
- disrupted — Interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.
- disrupter — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- distemper — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- diterpene — (chemistry) any terpene formed from four isoprene units, and having twenty carbon atoms; includes vitamin A, the gibberellins, and various biologically active lactones such as quassin.
- 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.
- dognapper — Agent noun of dognap; one who dognaps.