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9-letter words containing e, d, i, r

  • arillated — (of seeds) having an aril
  • aristides — known as Aristides the Just. ?530–?468 bc, Athenian general and statesman, who played a prominent part in the Greek victories over the Persians at Marathon (490), Salamis (480), and Plataea (479)
  • arraigned — to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment.
  • arsenides — Plural form of arsenide.
  • arytenoid — denoting either of two small cartilages of the larynx that are attached to the vocal cords
  • ascarides — any parasitic roundworm of the genus Ascaris, found in the human small intestine and causing colic and diarrhea.
  • asiderite — an iron-free meteorite consisting of friable material.
  • aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
  • asteroids — Plural form of asteroid.
  • astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
  • astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
  • atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
  • attainder — (formerly) the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony
  • attritted — to wear down (an opposing military force) by numerical superiority in troops or firepower.
  • auditress — a female auditor
  • axis deer — an Asian deer, Cervus (Axis) axis, of India and Sri Lanka, having a reddish-brown coat spotted with white.
  • ayurvedic — Ayurvedic medicine is a type of complementary medicine, originally from India, that uses herbs and other natural treatments.
  • backfired — Simple past tense and past participle of backfire.
  • bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
  • badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
  • badinerie — a name given in the 18th century to a type of quick, light movement in a suite
  • balladier — a person who sings ballads.
  • banbridge — a district in S Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 43 083 (2003 est). Area: 442 sq km (170 sq miles)
  • bandelier — Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840–1914, U.S. anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian, born in Switzerland.
  • bandolier — a soldier's broad shoulder belt having small pockets or loops for cartridges
  • bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
  • barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
  • barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
  • be rid of — to be freed from or relieved of (something undesirable)
  • bear raid — an attempt to force down the price of a security or commodity by sustained selling
  • beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
  • bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
  • bed liner — a stiff, durable plastic lining used to protect the bed and side walls of the cargo space of some pickup trucks
  • bedridden — Someone who is bedridden is so ill or has such a severe disability that they cannot get out of bed.
  • bedsitter — A bedsitter is the same as a bedsit.
  • bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
  • belvidere — a city in N Illinois.
  • berdichev — a city in W central Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
  • berg wind — a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast
  • bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
  • bernhardi — Friedrich A. J. von [free-drikh fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1930, German general.
  • bestirred — to stir up; rouse to action (often used reflexively): She bestirred herself at the first light of morning.
  • beveridge — William Henry, 1st Baron Beveridge. 1879–1963, British economist, whose Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) formed the basis of social-security legislation in Britain
  • bezoardic — relating to bezoar
  • bid price — The bid price of a particular stock or share is the price that investors are willing to pay for it.
  • biddeford — a city in SW Maine.
  • bierstadt — Albert1830-1902; U.S. painter, born in Germany
  • bike ride — a ride on a bicycle
  • bimotored — having two engines.
  • bind over — If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time.
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