9-letter words containing n, a, d, i, r
- dandiprat — a small English coin minted in the 16th century
- dardanian — Trojan
- darkening — Present participle of darken.
- darklings — in darkness
- darlingly — in a darling or charming manner
- darnation — Alternative form of tarnation.
- dartingly — In a darting manner; rapidly.
- darwinian — of or relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of evolution by natural selection
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- dawn raid — If police officers carry out a dawn raid, they go to someone's house very early in the morning to search it or arrest them.
- day-liner — a train, boat, etc., having a regularly scheduled route during daylight hours.
- dayspring — the dawn
- deaneries — Plural form of deanery.
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- debarring — Present participle of debar.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- defraying — Present participle of defray.
- 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
- degrading — causing humiliation; debasing
- 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.
- deliriant — involving or causing delirium.
- demarking — demarcate.
- 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
- departing — to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today. The train departs at 10:52.
- depraving — Present participle of deprave.
- derailing — Present participle of derail.
- deranging — Present participle of derange.
- derzhavin — Gavril Romanovich [gah-vril roh-mah-nuh-vich;; Russian guh-vryil ruh-mah-nuh-vyich] /gɑˈvrɪl roʊˈmɑ nə vɪtʃ;; Russian gəˈvryɪl rəˈmɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1743–1816, Russian poet.
- detainers — Plural form of detainer.
- detrained — Simple past tense and past participle of detrain.
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diapering — Present participle of diaper.
- diarising — Present participle of diarise.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- dietarian — Somebody following a diet, a dieter.
- dignitary — a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church.
- dimyarian — with two adductor muscles
- dinergate — a soldier ant.
- dinitrate — (chemistry) Any compound having two nitrate groups.
- dinosaurs — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disarming — removing or capable of removing hostility, suspicion, etc., as by being charming: a disarming smile.
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.