9-letter words containing d, e, t, r, a
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- chartered — Chartered is used to indicate that someone, such as an accountant or a surveyor, has formally qualified in their profession.
- chattered — to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber.
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- clarthead — a slow-witted or stupid person
- clattered — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- cocreated — Simple past tense and past participle of cocreate.
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- cordately — In a cordate form.
- corelated — to correlate.
- coronated — having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
- costarred — Simple past tense and past participle of costar.
- crispated — Crispate.
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- danburite — a rare mineral, calcium borosilicate, CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 , occurring in pegmatite in yellow or colorless crystals resembling topaz.
- dark meat — meat that is dark in appearance after cooking, especially a leg or thigh of chicken or turkey (distinguished from white meat).
- darnedest — (euphemistic) See damnedest.
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- data rate — data transfer rate
- date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- date rape — Date rape is when a man rapes a woman whom he has met socially.
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- day-trade — to buy and sell a listed security or commodity on the same day, usually on margin, for a quick profit.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- dead tree — (publication, jargon) Paper. Use of this term emphasises the waste of natural resources and limited features available from the printed form of a document compared with an electronic rendition. E.g. "I read the dead tree edition of the Guardian on the train". See also tree-killer.
- dead-tree — printed on paper
- deaerator — a piece of apparatus that extracts a gas from a liquid
- dearheart — A term of affection.
- death ray — an imaginary ray capable of killing
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- deathtrap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a deathtrap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- deathward — having an inclination or disposition towards death
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decameter — dekameter
- decametre — ten metres
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decastere — a measure equivalent to ten steres or cubic metres
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.