9-letter words containing e, a, s, t, r
- criterias — (nonstandard, proscribed) Plural form of criteria.
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crustacea — a collective term for members of the Crustacea class of (mainly aquatic) mandibulate arthropods, characterized by their usually chitinous exoskeletons
- cubatures — Plural form of cubature.
- curatress — A female curator.
- cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
- cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
- darnedest — (euphemistic) See damnedest.
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decastere — a measure equivalent to ten steres or cubic metres
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- del sarto — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- denatures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denature.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- derivates — Plural form of derivate.
- derogates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of derogate.
- descartes — René (rəne). 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician. He provided a mechanistic basis for the philosophical theory of dualism and is regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. He also founded analytical geometry and contributed greatly to the science of optics. His works include Discours de la méthode (1637), Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (1641), and Principia Philosophiae (1644)
- desecrate — If someone desecrates something which is considered to be holy or very special, they deliberately damage or insult it.
- desolater — One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.
- desolator — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
- desparate — Misspelling of desperate.
- desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
- detailers — Plural form of detailer.
- detainers — Plural form of detainer.
- diameters — Plural form of diameter.
- diatribes — Plural form of diatribe.
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disasters — Plural form of disaster.
- disattire — (transitive) To undress.
- discreate — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- disnature — to deprive (something) of its proper nature or appearance; make unnatural.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.
- distaffer — a woman, especially in a field or place usually or generally dominated by men: the first distaffer to have a seat on the stock exchange.
- distraite — (of a woman) inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- doorstead — the structure of a doorway.
- draftsmen — (US) Plural form of draftsman.
- dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.