9-letter words containing e, c, t, o, d, r
- deceptory — inclined to deceive
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decocture — the essence or liquor resulting from decoction
- decontrol — When governments decontrol an activity, they remove controls from it so that companies or organizations have more freedom.
- deconvert — An apostate.
- 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.
- decretion — The act of decreasing.
- decretory — characterized by making an absolute and final decision
- 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.
- defectors — Plural form of defector.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- dejectory — tending to cast down
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- dent corn — a strain of Indian corn (Zea mays var. indentata) in which the mature kernel develops a slight depression at the tip
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- detectors — Plural form of detector.
- detractor — The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
- dichroite — cordierite.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- directors — Plural form of director.
- directory — a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people.
- discovert — (of a woman) not covert; not under the protection of a husband.
- dissector — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- doctorate — Doctor of Philosophy (def 1).
- doctoress — a female doctor
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- doleritic — Of the nature of dolerite.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- dordrecht — a city in SW Netherlands, on the Waal River.
- dotcommer — a company doing business mostly or solely on the Internet.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- educatory — educative.
- electrode — A conductor through which electricity enters or leaves an object, substance, or region.
- endoproct — entoproct
- forecited — previously cited.
- goldcrest — a Eurasian kinglet, Regulus regulus, having a bright yellow patch on the top of the head.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- iridocyte — a guanine-containing cell in the skin of fish and some cephalopods, giving these animals their iridescence
- motorcade — a procession or parade of automobiles or other motor vehicles.
- noncredit — (of academic courses) carrying or conferring no official academic credit in a particular program or toward a particular degree or diploma.
- nondirect — Not direct.
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- obcordate — heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end, as a leaf.