9-letter words containing o, n, d, r
- downthrow — a throwing down or being thrown down; overthrow.
- downtrend — a downward or decreasing tendency, movement, or shift: a downtrend in gasoline consumption; a downtrend in stock prices.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- downwards — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- draconian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Athenian statesman Draco, or his severe code of laws.
- drag down — demoralize
- drag into — To drag something or someone into an event or situation means to involve them in it when it is not necessary or not desirable.
- draghound — a hound for use in following a hunting drag, specifically bred for speed and stamina rather than subtlety of sense of smell.
- dragomans — Plural form of dragoman.
- dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.
- dragonfly — any of numerous stout-bodied, nonstinging insects of the order Odonata (suborder Anisoptera), the species of which prey on mosquitoes and other insects and are distinguished from the damselflies by having the wings outstretched rather than folded when at rest.
- dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
- dragonism — a strict and domineering manner
- dragonize — to turn into a dragon
- dragooned — Simple past tense and past participle of dragoon.
- dragooner — (obsolete) A dragoon.
- drain off — liquid: remove
- drain rod — one of a series of flexible rods with threaded ends that screw together and can be pushed to and fro in a drain to clear a blockage
- draw down — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw into — involve sb in sth
- draw upon — use as source or resource
- drawn-out — long-drawn-out.
- drawnwork — Ornamental work on linen or other fabric, done by drawing out threads and usually with additional needlework.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- drollness — The quality of being odd or comical.
- droningly — With a droning sound.
- dronishly — in a droning manner
- drop tank — an external aircraft tank, usually containing fuel, that can be detached and dropped in flight
- drop zone — an area into which paratroopers, soldiers, or supplies are landed from aircraft for a military operation. Abbreviation: DZ.
- drop-down — computer menu, list: displayed when selected
- droppings — the act of a person or thing that drops.
- dropsonde — an instrument similar to a radiosonde that is attached to a parachute and released from an aircraft.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- drown out — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drownings — Plural form of drowning.
- drum into — instill by repetition
- dry point — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dunbarton — former county of W Scotland
- dungeoner — a thing which or a jailer who confines in, or as if in, a dungeon
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- duodenary — duodecimal.
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- dynamotor — an electrical machine having a single magnetic field and two independent armature windings of which one acts as a motor and the other a generator: used to convert direct current from a battery into alternating current
- dynorphin — (biochemistry) Any of a class of opioid peptides that arise from the precursor protein prodynorphin.
- ealdorman — alderman.
- ealdormen — Plural form of ealdorman.
- ecuadoran — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.