9-letter words containing e, d, i, r
- de ridder — a town in W Louisiana.
- dead wire — a wire that is not carrying current
- deaneries — Plural form of deanery.
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- debarring — Present participle of debar.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- debriding — Present participle of debride.
- debriefed — Simple past tense and past participle of debrief.
- debriefer — a person who debriefs or creates a report after an assignment or an incident
- deburring — Present participle of deburr.
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- decameric — Of or pertaining to a decamer.
- deceivers — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
- decemviri — Plural form of decemvir.
- decemvirs — a member of a permanent board or a special commission of ten members in ancient Rome, especially the commission that drew up Rome's first code of law.
- decerning — Present participle of decern.
- decertify — to withdraw or remove a certificate or certification from (a person, organization, or country)
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- deciliter — one tenth of a liter (3.376 fluid ounces or 6.1024 cubic inches)
- decilitre — one tenth of a litre
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimeter — one tenth of a meter (3.937 inches)
- decimetre — one tenth of a metre
- deciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decipher.
- decistere — a measure equivalent to one tenth of a stere
- deckchair — A deckchair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deckchairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the garden.
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- decliners — Plural form of decliner.
- decreeing — Present participle of decree.
- decretion — The act of decreasing.
- decretist — a person who is knowledgeable on the subject of the Decretals or the papal edicts that make up part of canon law
- decretive — of or relating to an official and final decision
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deer lick — a naturally or artificially salty area of ground where deer come to lick the salt
- deer tick — a tick that is parasitic on deer; esp., any of a genus (Ixodes) of ticks that transmit the spirochete causing Lyme disease
- deerfield — a city in NE Illinois.
- deerskins — Plural form of deerskin.
- deferring — to submit for decision; refer: We defer questions of this kind to the president.
- defibered — (of food) having little or no natural fiber, typically as the result of commercial refining or processing.
- defibrate — to break (wood, paper, garbage, etc.) into fibrous components; reduce to fibers.
- deforming — Present participle of deform.
- deformity — A deformity is a part of someone's body which is not the normal shape because of injury or illness, or because they were born this way.
- defraying — Present participle of defray.
- defrizzed — Simple past tense and past participle of defrizz.
- degarnish — to remove ornamentation from (something)
- degearing — the process in which a company replaces some or all of its fixed-interest loan stock with ordinary shares