9-letter words containing d, r, a, c, o
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- 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
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decorated — (often initial capital letter) of pertaining to, or characteristic of the English gothic architecture of the late 13th through the late 14th centuries, characterized by curvilinear tracery, elaborate ornamental sculpture and vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques.
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- decorator — A decorator is a person whose job is to paint houses or put wallpaper up.
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- delacroix — (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1798–1863, French romantic painter whose use of colour and free composition influenced impressionism. His paintings of historical and contemporary scenes include The Massacre at Chios (1824)
- delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)
- democracy — A democracy is a country in which the people choose their government by voting for it.
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- democrazy — A democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity.
- detractor — The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- diatropic — the tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.
- dictatory — dictatorial
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- disaccord — to be out of accord; disagree.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- discordia — the ancient Roman goddess of discord, identified with the Greek goddess Eris.
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- doctorand — a student working towards a doctorate
- doctorate — Doctor of Philosophy (def 1).
- doctorial — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- doctrinal — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
- docudrama — a fictionalized drama based primarily on actual events.
- dog track — racing circuit for dogs
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- door jack — a frame for holding a door while its edge is being planed.
- doorcases — Plural form of doorcase.
- down card — a card that is dealt and played face down, as in blackjack and stud poker.
- draconian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Athenian statesman Draco, or his severe code of laws.
- drama-doc — a film which combines fact and fiction
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- drop arch — a pointed arch having radii of length less than the span.
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.