9-letter words containing d, p, a, r
- rhamphoid — beaklike or beak-shaped
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhipidate — shaped like a fan
- road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
- road trip — journey in a car, bus, etc.
- sand pear — Asian pear.
- sand trap — (on a golf course) a shallow pit partly filled with sand, usually located near a green, and designed to serve as a hazard.
- sand-trap — (on a golf course) a shallow pit partly filled with sand, usually located near a green, and designed to serve as a hazard.
- sandpaper — strong paper coated with a layer of sand or other abrasive, used for smoothing or polishing.
- sandpiper — any of numerous shore-inhabiting birds of the family Scolopacidae, related to the plovers, typically having a slender bill and a piping call.
- sapphired — blue-coloured
- scampered — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scrapyard — A scrapyard is a place where old machines such as cars or ships are destroyed and where useful parts are saved.
- separated — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shopboard — a shop counter or work bench
- slip road — A slip road is a road which cars use to drive on and off a motorway.
- spaceward — going into space
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- spar deck — the upper deck of a vessel, extending from stem to stern.
- sparsedly — in a scattered manner
- spattered — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- spearhead — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- speedread — to read (something) very quickly
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
- spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
- spiralled — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- spodogram — the ash pattern produced by incinerating a plant
- sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
- spot card — spot (def 10b).
- spraddled — to straddle.
- spreathed — sore; chapped
- springald — a youth; young fellow.
- stampeder — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
- strappado — an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.
- superroad — an extremely large road
- surpassed — to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than; exceed.
- swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
- tepidaria — in Ancient Rome, the warm rooms of the baths
- tetrapody — a measure consisting of four feet.
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- top-rated — A top-rated show or service is the most successful or highly regarded of its kind.
- trade gap — difference in value between nation's imports and exports
- trap door — a door flush with the surface of a floor, ceiling, or roof.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- trepanned — a person who ensnares or entraps others.
- trepidant — trepid.
- triparted — divided into three parts.
- under par — unwell