9-letter words containing e, n, t, r, o
- detrition — the act of rubbing or wearing away by friction
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- devonport — a city in N Tasmania.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diner-out — a person who dines out.
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- disorient — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- doorstone — a stone serving as the sill of a doorway.
- downtrend — a downward or decreasing tendency, movement, or shift: a downtrend in gasoline consumption; a downtrend in stock prices.
- dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- ear stone — an otolith.
- ear-stone — a calcium carbonate crystal in the ear of vertebrates
- earthborn — born on or sprung from the earth; of earthly origin.
- ecotarian — An ecotarian is a person who eats only food that has been produced in a way that does not harm the environment.
- ectocrine — a substance that is released by an organism into the external environment and influences the development, behaviour, etc, of members of the same or different species
- ectropion — A condition, typically a consequence of advanced age, in which the eyelid is turned outward away from the eyeball.
- electrons — Plural form of electron.
- emendator — One who emends or critically edits.
- emunctory — Pertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
- en croûte — wrapped in pastry and baked
- encounter — Unexpectedly experience or be faced with (something difficult or hostile).
- endoproct — entoproct
- endotherm — An animal that is dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat; a warm-blooded animal.
- enrolment — The act of enrolling or the state of being enrolled.
- enronitis — a situation in which large corporations fail to secure investment because they are suspected of fraud and mismanagement
- enthroned — Formally placed in a position.
- entoproct — (zoology) Any member of the Entoprocta, a phylum of mostly sessile aquatic animals.
- entourage — A group of people attending or surrounding an important person.
- entrecote — beefsteak cut from between the ribs
- entrepots — Plural form of entrepot.
- entresols — Plural form of entresol.
- entropies — Plural form of entropy.
- entropion — the turning inwards of the edge of the eyelid
- enwrought — (archaic) Made from (a material).
- epuration — purification
- erections — Plural form of erection.
- erotomane — A person with excessive sexual desire.
- erudition — The quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning; scholarship.
- eruptions — Plural form of eruption.
- escorting — Present participle of escort.
- esperanto — Esperanto is an invented language which consists of parts of several European languages, and which was designed to help people from different countries communicate with each other.
- estrogens — Plural form of estrogen.