9-letter words containing n, r, s
- darnedest — (euphemistic) See damnedest.
- 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.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- dayspring — the dawn
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- deaneries — Plural form of deanery.
- debunkers — Plural form of debunker.
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decenters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decenter.
- decliners — Plural form of decliner.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- deerskins — Plural form of deerskin.
- defenders — Plural form of defender.
- defensory — (archaic) Tending to defend; defensive.
- deferents — Plural form of deferent.
- degarnish — to remove ornamentation from (something)
- demeanors — Plural form of demeanor.
- demersion — immersion in a fluid
- denatures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denature.
- dendrites — Plural form of dendrite.
- densifier — something that makes things more dense
- 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
- descender — a person or thing that descends
- descrying — Present participle of descry.
- 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.
- designers — Plural form of designer.
- despenser — Hugh le, Earl of Winchester. 1262–1326, English statesman, a favourite of Edward II. Together with his son Hugh, the Younger (?1290–1326), he was executed by the king's enemies
- detainers — Plural form of detainer.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- 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.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diarising — Present participle of diarise.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- didrikson — Mildred(Mrs. George Zaharias) 1913-56; U.S. athlete in many sports
- diesinker — an engraver of dies for stamping or embossing.
- 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.
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.
- dirtiness — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.