9-letter words containing i, s, r
- desertify — to (cause to) become a desert
- deserting — Present participle of desert.
- desertion — the act of deserting or abandoning or the state of being deserted or abandoned
- deserving — If you describe a person, organization, or cause as deserving, you mean that you think they should be helped.
- desideria — an ardent longing, as for something lost.
- designers — Plural form of designer.
- desirable — Something that is desirable is worth having or doing because it is useful, necessary, or popular.
- desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- desireful — Filled with desire; eager.
- despaired — loss of hope; hopelessness.
- despairer — a person who despairs
- despoiler — to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- destriers — Plural form of destrier.
- detailers — Plural form of detailer.
- detainers — Plural form of detainer.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- detersive — having cleansing power
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- diaereses — Plural form of diaeresis.
- diaeresis — the mark ¨, in writing placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that it is to be pronounced separately rather than forming a diphthong with the first, as in some spellings of coöperate, naïve, etc
- diagraphs — Plural form of diagraph.
- diameters — Plural form of diameter.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diapirism — the existence of diapirs
- diarising — Present participle of diarise.
- diaristic — stylistically like a diary
- diarrheas — Plural form of diarrhea.
- diasporas — Plural form of diaspora.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- diatribes — Plural form of diatribe.
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dicrotism — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.
- didrikson — Mildred(Mrs. George Zaharias) 1913-56; U.S. athlete in many sports
- dies irae — a Latin hymn on the Day of Judgment, commonly sung in a Requiem Mass.
- diesinker — an engraver of dies for stamping or embossing.
- diffusers — Plural form of diffuser.
- digastric — (of a muscle) having two bellies with an intermediate tendon.
- digesters — Plural form of digester.
- digitiser — Alternative spelling of digitizer.
- digressed — to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
- digresser — to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
- digresses — to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
- dihedrals — Plural form of dihedral.
- dihybrids — Plural form of dihybrid.