9-letter words containing d, s, n
- ovenbirds — Plural form of ovenbird.
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- overspend — to spend more than one can afford: Receiving a small inheritance, she began to overspend alarmingly.
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- oxidising — to convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen.
- pad stone — a stone template.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- panderess — a female panderer
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panderous — resembling a pander
- pantdress — a dress with a divided skirt
- pas d'ane — a pair of rings set below and at right angles to the quillons of a sword as a guard for the forefinger.
- pass band — the range of frequencies that pass with a minimum of attenuation through an electronic filter.
- pastedown — the leaf of an endpaper that is pasted to the inside of the front or back cover of a book.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- pen-based — (of a computer) having an electronic stylus rather than a keyboard as the primary input device.
- penalised — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- pendulous — hanging down loosely: pendulous blossoms.
- pentoside — a glycoside that, upon hydrolysis, yields a pentose
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- pinedrops — a slender, leafless, parasitic North American plant, Pterospora andromedea, having nodding white to red flowers, found growing under pines.
- pinelands — the, an extensive coastal region in S and SE New Jersey, composed chiefly of pine stands, sandy soils, and swampy streams. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).
- planeside — the area on either side of an airplane.
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- plenished — to fill up; stock; furnish.
- pond scum — any free-floating freshwater alga that forms a green scum on water.
- ponderosa — a North American pine tree
- ponderous — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- postponed — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- predesign — to design beforehand or in advance
- presented — to furnish or endow with a gift or the like, especially by formal act: to present someone with a gold watch.
- president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- presiding — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- proudness — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- pseudonym — a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def 1).
- pudendous — shameful
- push-down — a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
- quadrants — Plural form of quadrant.
- quadroons — Plural form of quadroon.
- quandongs — Plural form of quandong.
- quantised — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- queenside — the side of the board on which the queen is positioned at the start of a game, left for white and right for black.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- quidnuncs — Plural form of quidnunc.
- rabidness — The property of being rabid.
- radionics — a dowsing technique using a pendulum to detect the energy fields that are emitted by all forms of matter
- randiness — sexually aroused; lustful; lecherous.
- raynaud's — a disease, mainly affecting women, in which spasms in the blood vessels of the fingers or toes restrict blood flow to the affected part, which becomes pale, numb, and sometimes painful
- re-siding — a piece or section of siding: to put backing material on the re-sides.