9-letter words containing d, i, t, r
- persisted — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
- pertained — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- petrified — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- pintadera — a decorative stamp, usually made of clay, found in the Neolithic of the E Mediterranean and in many American cultures
- port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.
- porticoed — provided with a portico or porticoes.
- portiered — having a portiere, a curtain hanging across a doorway
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- postrider — (formerly) a person who rode post; a mounted mail carrier.
- practiced — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- pre-audit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predictor — a person or thing that predicts.
- predigest — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- predilect — chosen in preference; preferred
- premiated — to grant a prize or an award to.
- president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- proditory — traitorous
- prosodist — an expert in prosody.
- protoxide — the one of a series of oxides having the smallest proportion of oxygen.
- provident — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- pteridine — a yellow, crystalline, heteroaromatic compound having a bicyclic molecular structure; any substituted derivative of this, examples of which occur naturally, esp as vitamins of the B group and insect pigments. Formula: C6H4N4
- pterygoid — wing-shaped
- putridity — in a state of foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter; rotten.
- quadratic — square.
- radiality — the state of being radial in form or structure
- radiantly — emitting rays of light; shining; bright: the radiant sun; radiant colors.
- radiately — In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a centre.
- radiating — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- radiation — Physics. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and absorbed by another body. the energy transferred by these processes.
- radiative — giving off radiation.
- radio set — an apparatus that receives radio signals
- radiocast — a radiobroadcast.
- radiosity — (graphics) A method for rendering a view of a three-dimensional scene that provides realistic lighting effects, such as interobject reflections and color bleeding. Radiosity methods are computationally intense, due to the use of linear systems of equations and the spatial complexity of large scenes.
- radiothon — an on-the-air radio campaign, often lasting 24 hours or more, designed to raise money for a radio station, charity, the arts, etc., as from listeners phoning in and pledging specific donations, sometimes in exchange for gifts or premiums.
- rain date — an alternative date for an outdoor event in case it is postponed or interrupted by rain.
- rancidity — having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils: rancid butter.
- rattailed — having a tail or feature like a rat's tail
- read into — If you read a meaning into something, you think it is there although it may not actually be there.
- receipted — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- recondite — dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
- recordist — Also called sound recordist. Movies. the person in charge of sound recording on a film set. Compare mixer.