9-letter words containing o, d, r, a, n, t
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- gradation — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- granitoid — resembling or having the texture of granite.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- hydration — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydronaut — a person trained to work in deep-sea vessels for research and rescue purposes.
- indagator — to investigate; research.
- indicator — a person or thing that indicates.
- kronstadt — a naval base in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on an island in the Gulf of Finland: fortress founded 1710.
- landdrost — the chief magistrate of a district
- macrodont — the condition of having abnormally large teeth.
- mandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mordanted — Simple past tense and past participle of mordant.
- mordantly — sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker; biting.
- mordicant — Biting; acrid.
- non-trade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- northland — the land or region in the north.
- northward — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- notarised — to certify (a document, contract, etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public.
- notarized — Simple past tense and past participle of notarize.
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- ordinated — Simple past tense and past participle of ordinate.
- ordinates — Plural form of ordinate.
- ordinator — One who ordains or establishes; a director.
- outlander — a foreigner; alien.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- outranked — Simple past tense and past participle of outrank.
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- ponderate — deliberate or intentional
- portadown — a town in S Northern Ireland, in the district of Armagh. Pop: 25 958 (2001)
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- radiation — Physics. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and absorbed by another body. the energy transferred by these processes.
- radiothon — an on-the-air radio campaign, often lasting 24 hours or more, designed to raise money for a radio station, charity, the arts, etc., as from listeners phoning in and pledging specific donations, sometimes in exchange for gifts or premiums.
- read into — If you read a meaning into something, you think it is there although it may not actually be there.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- rhodanate — a salt of thiocyanic acid
- road town — a town on SE Tortola, in the NE West Indies: capital of the British Virgin Islands.
- rotundate — rounded
- sandstorm — a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand (distinguished from dust storm).
- shorthand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- tear down — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- tornadoes — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).
- tradition — the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice: a story that has come down to us by popular tradition.
- trainload — the cargo or passenger capacity of a train.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- trazodone — a white crystalline powder, C 19 H 22 ClN 5 O, used in the treatment of major depression disorders.