9-letter words containing d, r, a, b, i
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- defibrate — to break (wood, paper, garbage, etc.) into fibrous components; reduce to fibers.
- delibrate — (obsolete) To strip off the bark; to peel.
- derivable — to receive or obtain from a source or origin (usually followed by from).
- derivably — in a way that is able to be derived
- desirable — Something that is desirable is worth having or doing because it is useful, necessary, or popular.
- desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- diablerie — magic or witchcraft connected with devils
- diatribes — Plural form of diatribe.
- digambara — the earlier of the two principal Jain sects, whose members went naked.
- dirtboard — A long skateboard with larger-than-average wheels, designed for off-road use.
- disablers — Plural form of disabler.
- disbarred — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- disbursal — The act of disbursing money.
- disembark — to go ashore from a ship.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- drabbling — Present participle of drabble.
- drainable — Capable of being drained.
- drillable — Machinery, Building Trades. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, especially by rotation. a tool, especially a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- driveable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- dry basis — The dry basis is a measure of how much water is in a solid, which is expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the completely dry solid.
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- ebrillade — a tug on the rein when a horse will not turn
- fabrikoid — a waterproof fabric made of cloth coated with pyroxylin
- faidherbe — Louis Léon César. 1818–89, French soldier and governor of Senegal (1854–65); founder of Dakar
- faridabad — an industrial city in Haryana, N India.
- fireboard — a board used to close a fireplace.
- firebrand — a piece of burning wood or other material.
- firozabad — a city in Uttar Pradesh state, N central India.
- flipboard — a piece of office equipment consisting of a board to which a flip chart or some other pad can be attached
- forbiddal — Lb archaic The act of forbidding something.
- friarbird — any of various Australasian honeyeaters, especially of the genus Philemon.
- gabardine — Also, gaberdine. a firm, tightly woven fabric of worsted, cotton, polyester, or other fiber, with a twill weave.
- gaberdine — Also, gabardine. a long, loose coat or frock for men, worn in the Middle Ages, especially by Jews.
- game bird — any bird hunted chiefly for sport, as a quail or pheasant, especially such a bird that is protected by game laws.
- garibaldi — Giuseppe [juh-sep-ee;; Italian joo-zep-pe] /dʒəˈsɛp i;; Italian dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1807–82, Italian patriot and general.
- girl band — A girl band is a band consisting of young women who sing pop music and dance.
- grassbird — a type of warbler found in long grass and reed beds
- grid bias — the potential difference applied between a grid and the cathode of a vacuum tube.
- haberdine — a cod that has been dried and salted
- hairbands — Plural form of hairband.
- hard-bill — a seed-eating bird.
- hard-boil — to boil (an egg) until the yolk and white have become firm or solid.
- heathbird — the black grouse
- hebridean — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- hindbrain — the most posterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue, including the cerebellum, pons, and medulla oblongata; rhombencephalon.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.