9-letter words containing n, e, r, d, o
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- devon rex — a breed of medium-sized curly-haired cat with large eyes and very large ears
- devonport — a city in N Tasmania.
- devouring — Present participle of devour.
- deworming — Present participle of deworm.
- 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.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- 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.
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disenroll — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disorient — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- disproven — Alternative irregular form of the Past participle of disprove.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- diversion — the act of diverting or turning aside, as from a course or purpose: a diversion of industry into the war effort.
- dna probe — a technique for identifying a segment of DNA, using a known sequence of nucleotide bases from a DNA strand to detect a complementary sequence in the sample by means of base pairing.
- dobber-in — an informant or traitor
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- doddering — shaky or trembling, as from old age; tottering: a doddering old man.
- doggerman — a sailor on a dogger
- dognapper — Agent noun of dognap; one who dognaps.
- domineers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of domineer.
- don river — a river flowing generally S from Tula in the Russian Federation in Europe, to the Sea of Azov. About 1200 miles (1930 km) long.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- doorstone — a stone serving as the sill of a doorway.
- doorwomen — Plural form of doorwoman.
- dorkiness — The state or quality of being dorky.
- downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downforce — a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards
- downgrade — a downward slope, especially of a road.
- downrange — (of a missile, space launch, etc.) traveling in a specified direction away from the launch site and toward the target.
- downriver — Toward or situated at a point nearer the mouth of a river.
- downtrend — a downward or decreasing tendency, movement, or shift: a downtrend in gasoline consumption; a downtrend in stock prices.
- dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.
- dragonize — to turn into a dragon
- dragooned — Simple past tense and past participle of dragoon.
- dragooner — (obsolete) A dragoon.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- drollness — The quality of being odd or comical.
- drop zone — an area into which paratroopers, soldiers, or supplies are landed from aircraft for a military operation. Abbreviation: DZ.
- dropsonde — an instrument similar to a radiosonde that is attached to a parachute and released from an aircraft.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- dungeoner — a thing which or a jailer who confines in, or as if in, a dungeon
- duodenary — duodecimal.
- ealdorman — alderman.
- ealdormen — Plural form of ealdorman.
- ecuadoran — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- eiderdown — Small, soft feathers from the breast of the female eider duck.