9-letter words containing e, d, i, r
- degerming — to rid of germs.
- deglorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- degrading — causing humiliation; debasing
- degrative — (chemistry) of something causing a cell or organism to degrade.
- dehorning — Present participle of dehorn.
- deianeira — a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules, whom she killed unwittingly by giving him a shirt that had been dipped in the poisoned blood of Nessus.
- deionizer — A device that deionizes something.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal
- delacroix — (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1798–1863, French romantic painter whose use of colour and free composition influenced impressionism. His paintings of historical and contemporary scenes include The Massacre at Chios (1824)
- delibrate — (obsolete) To strip off the bark; to peel.
- delighter — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
- delimiter — a character or group of characters which mark a limit in computer code
- deliriant — involving or causing delirium.
- delirious — Someone who is delirious is unable to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way, usually because they are very ill and have a fever.
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- delivered — to carry and turn over (letters, goods, etc.) to the intended recipient or recipients: to deliver mail; to deliver a package.
- deliverer — to carry and turn over (letters, goods, etc.) to the intended recipient or recipients: to deliver mail; to deliver a package.
- deliverly — quickly; nimbly; deftly
- demarking — demarcate.
- demerging — Present participle of demerge.
- demersion — immersion in a fluid
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- demigrate — (obsolete) To emigrate.
- demisters — Plural form of demister.
- demiurges — Plural form of demiurge.
- demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
- demiworld — demimonde (defs 4, 5).
- demurring — Present participle of demur.
- dendrimer — a type of polymer defined by regular branches from a central monomer, which give it a tree-like molecular structure
- dendrites — Plural form of dendrite.
- dendritic — formed or marked like a dendrite.
- denigrate — If you denigrate someone or something, you criticize them unfairly or insult them.
- denitrate — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which a compound loses a nitro or nitrate group, nitrogen dioxide, or nitric acid
- denitrify — to undergo or cause to undergo loss or removal of nitrogen compounds or nitrogen
- densifier — something that makes things more dense
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- dentistry — Dentistry is the work done by a dentist.
- denturism — the practice by denturists of making artificial dentures and fitting them to patients.
- denturist — a person who makes dentures
- deodorise — Alternative spelling of deodorize.
- deodorize — If you deodorize something, you remove unpleasant smells from it.
- deorbited — Simple past tense and past participle of deorbit.
- depardieu — Gérard. born 1948, French film actor, granted Russian citizenship in 2013. His films include Jean de Florette (1986), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Green Card (1991), The Man in the Iron Mask (1997), and Tais-toi (2003)
- departing — to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today. The train departs at 10:52.
- depicture — (transitive) To make a picture of; to paint or depict.
- deploring — Present participle of deplore.
- deporting — Present participle of deport.
- depositor — A bank's depositors are the people who have accounts with that bank.
- depraving — Present participle of deprave.