9-letter words containing d, e, r, o
- destroyed — to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
- destroyer — A destroyer is a small, heavily armed warship.
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- detectors — Plural form of detector.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- dethroned — Simple past tense and past participle of dethrone.
- dethroner — One who dethrones.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- 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.
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detorting — Present participle of detort.
- detortion — The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detractor — The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
- detrition — the act of rubbing or wearing away by friction
- detrivore — (biology) Any organism that feeds on detritus.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- 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.
- deviatory — Tending to deviate.
- devon rex — a breed of medium-sized curly-haired cat with large eyes and very large ears
- devonport — a city in N Tasmania.
- devoureth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'devour'.
- devouring — Present participle of devour.
- deworming — Present participle of deworm.
- dexterous — Someone who is dexterous is very skilful and clever with their hands.
- dextrorse — (of some climbing plants) growing upwards in a helix from left to right or anticlockwise
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diarrhoea — If someone has diarrhoea, a lot of liquid faeces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- dibromide — a chemical compound that contains two bromine atoms per molecule
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- diner-out — a person who dines out.
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- dioestrus — diestrus.
- dioptrate — (of a compound eye) divided by a transverse line
- 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.
- dire wolf — an extinct wolf, Canis dirus, widespread in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch, having a larger body and a smaller brain than the modern wolf.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- directors — Plural form of director.
- directory — a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people.
- discloser — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- discoured — Simple past tense and past participle of discoure.
- discoures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discoure.
- discourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discovers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discover.
- discovert — (of a woman) not covert; not under the protection of a husband.