9-letter words containing d, r, e, a
- inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
- instarred — to set with or as if with stars.
- integrand — the expression to be integrated.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- interdata — (company) A computer manufacturer. Interdata became Perkin-Elmer, then Concurrent.
- interdeal — to negotiate or deal mutually
- interlaid — Simple past tense and past participle of interlay.
- interlard — to diversify by adding or interjecting something unique, striking, or contrasting (usually followed by with): to interlard one's speech with oaths.
- intreated — Simple past tense and past participle of intreat.
- irradiate — to shed rays of light upon; illuminate.
- irredenta — a region that is under the political jurisdiction of one nation but is related to another by reason of cultural, historical, and ethnic ties.
- irrelated — Unrelated.
- irridenta — a region that is ethnically or historically tied to one country, but which is ruled by another
- irrigated — Simple past tense and past participle of irrigate.
- irritated — angered, provoked, or annoyed.
- irrorated — Simple past tense and past participle of irrorate.
- islanders — Plural form of islander.
- jaz drive — (hardware, storage) Iomega Corporation's drive which takes removable one or two gigabyte disk cartridges which contain conventional hard disks. Internal and external drives are available claiming an average transfer rate of 330 megabytes per minute - though that is dependent on the SCSI adapter, the parallel port adapter is unlikely to reach anything like this speed. The Jaz drive was the successor to the company's more establistablished Zip Drive.
- jeoparded — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopard.
- jeoparder — a person who puts in jeopardy
- jeremiads — Plural form of jeremiad.
- jug-eared — having ears (jug ears) that stick out from the head resembling the way that a handle sticks out from a jug
- jusserand — Jean (Adrien Antoine) Jules [zhahn a-dree-ahn ahn-twan zhyl] /ʒɑ̃ a driˈɑ̃ ɑnˈtwan ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, French diplomat, historian, and essayist.
- jutlander — a peninsula comprising the continental portion of Denmark: naval battle between the British and German fleets was fought west of this peninsula 1916. 11,441 sq. mi. (29,630 sq. km).
- kaiserdom — The dignity, rank or office of a kaiser; the state of being a kaiser.
- karlfeldt — Erik Axel [ey-rik ahk-suh l] /ˈeɪ rɪk ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1864–1931, Swedish poet: Nobel Prize posthumously 1931.
- keep dark — to keep secret or hidden
- keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kidnapper — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kinkaider — a person who received free land under the provisions of the Kinkaid Act.
- kiteboard — A specialized light weight wakeboard used for kiteboarding.
- knackered — exhausted; very tired: He is really knackered after work.
- kneeboard — a short board for surfing or water-skiing in a kneeling position.
- la grande — a town in NE Oregon.
- lace card — (Obsolete) A punched card with all holes punched (also called a "whoopee card" or "ventilator card"). Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism. Card punches could also jam trying to produce these things owing to power-supply problems. When some practical joker fed a lace card through the reader, you needed to clear the jam with a "card knife" - which you used on the joker first.
- lacerated — lacerated.
- lacertids — Plural form of lacertid.
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- laddering — Present participle of ladder.
- ladderman — a firefighter who is a member of a hook-and-ladder company.
- ladderway — a vertical passageway with ladders.
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.
- lagerfeld — Karl (Otto). born 1938, German fashion designer working mainly in Paris
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- landgrave — (in medieval Germany) a count having jurisdiction over a large territory.
- landloper — a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
- landowner — an owner or proprietor of land.
- lanterned — Simple past tense and past participle of lantern.
- laplander — Also called Laplander [lap-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈlæpˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a member of a Finnic people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and adjacent regions.