9-letter words containing d, r
- centuried — existing for an indefinite number of centuries.
- ceramides — Plural form of ceramide.
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- cerebroid — resembling the cerebrum or the brain.
- certified — holding or guaranteed by a certificate
- certitude — Certitude is the same as certainty.
- cetrimide — a quaternary ammonium compound used as a detergent and, having powerful antiseptic properties, for sterilizing surgical instruments, cleaning wounds, etc
- chaffered — Simple past tense and past participle of chaffer.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- chairlady — chairwoman.
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamfered — a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45° angle to the adjacent principal faces. Compare bevel.
- chancroid — a soft venereal ulcer, esp of the male genitals, caused by infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- chandlery — the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- chardzhou — a city in E Turkmenistan, on the Amu Darya.
- chartered — Chartered is used to indicate that someone, such as an accountant or a surveyor, has formally qualified in their profession.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chattered — to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber.
- checkered — having a pattern of squares
- cheerlead — to lead a crowd in formal cheers at sports events
- chequered — If a person or organization has had a chequered career or history, they have had a varied past with both good and bad periods.
- cherished — clung to, esp when fulfilment is unlikely
- childcare — Childcare refers to looking after children, and to the facilities which help parents to do so.
- childfree — having no children; childless, especially by choice.
- childrens — (intentionally incorrect, nonstandard) Plural form of child.
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chippered — to chirp or twitter.
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chirruped — Simple past tense and past participle of chirrup.
- chittered — Simple past tense and past participle of chitter.
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- chlorides — Plural form of chloride.
- chondrify — to become or convert into cartilage
- chondrite — a stony meteorite consisting mainly of silicate minerals in the form of chondrules
- chondroid — cartilaginous or similar to cartilage
- chondroma — a benign cartilaginous growth or neoplasm
- chondrule — one of the small spherical masses of mainly silicate minerals present in chondrites
- choppered — Simple past tense and past participle of chopper.
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chordless — Lacking chords.
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase