9-letter words containing d, n, r
- dardanian — Trojan
- darkeners — Plural form of darkener.
- darkeness — Obsolete form of darkness.
- darkening — Present participle of darken.
- darklings — in darkness
- darknesse — Archaic spelling of darkness.
- darlingly — in a darling or charming manner
- darnation — Alternative form of tarnation.
- darnedest — (euphemistic) See damnedest.
- dartingly — In a darting manner; rapidly.
- darwinian — of or relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of evolution by natural selection
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- dawn raid — If police officers carry out a dawn raid, they go to someone's house very early in the morning to search it or arrest them.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- day-liner — a train, boat, etc., having a regularly scheduled route during daylight hours.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- dayspring — the dawn
- de morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- de varona — Donna, born 1947, U.S. swimmer.
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- deaneries — Plural form of deanery.
- 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.
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- debarring — Present participle of debar.
- debenture — A debenture is a type of savings bond which offers a fixed rate of interest over a long period. Debentures are usually issued by a company or a government agency.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- debriding — Present participle of debride.
- debunkers — Plural form of debunker.
- deburring — Present participle of deburr.
- 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
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- deceleron — (on a fixed-wing aircraft) a type of aileron that enables the aircraft to have a degree of control when it goes into a roll
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- decenters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decenter.
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- decentred — to put out of center.
- decerning — Present participle of decern.
- dechunker — chunker
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- decliners — Plural form of decliner.
- decontrol — When governments decontrol an activity, they remove controls from it so that companies or organizations have more freedom.
- deconvert — An apostate.
- decreeing — Present participle of decree.
- decrement — the act of decreasing; diminution
- decretion — The act of decreasing.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.