9-letter words containing o, r, d, i
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- creditors — Plural form of creditor.
- creolized — (of a language) incorporating a considerable range of features from one or more unrelated languages, as the result of contact between language communities
- cretinoid — a person suffering from cretinism.
- crimsoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crimson.
- crinoidal — (zoology) Relating to, consisting of, or containing crinoids.
- crocodile — A crocodile is a large reptile with a long body and strong jaws. Crocodiles live in rivers and eat meat.
- crosstied — secured with crossties
- crosswind — A crosswind is a strong wind that blows across the direction that vehicles, boats, or aircraft are travelling in, and that makes it difficult for them to keep moving steadily forward.
- crude oil — Crude oil is oil in its natural state before it has been processed or refined.
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- custodier — a custodian
- cyprinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyprinoidea, a large suborder of teleost fishes including the cyprinids, characins, electric eels, and loaches
- d-horizon — a stratum, as of rock, sometimes underlying the C-horizon
- dado rail — a moulding at about waist height on an interior wall, used for decoration and to protect the wall
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- darnation — Alternative form of tarnation.
- de moivre — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1667–1754, French mathematician in England.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decretion — The act of decreasing.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deforming — Present participle of deform.
- deformity — A deformity is a part of someone's body which is not the normal shape because of injury or illness, or because they were born this way.
- deglorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- dehorning — Present participle of dehorn.
- deionizer — A device that deionizes something.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- delacroix — (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1798–1863, French romantic painter whose use of colour and free composition influenced impressionism. His paintings of historical and contemporary scenes include The Massacre at Chios (1824)
- delirious — Someone who is delirious is unable to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way, usually because they are very ill and have a fever.
- demersion — immersion in a fluid
- demiworld — demimonde (defs 4, 5).
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- deodorise — Alternative spelling of deodorize.
- deodorize — If you deodorize something, you remove unpleasant smells from it.
- deorbited — Simple past tense and past participle of deorbit.
- deploring — Present participle of deplore.
- deporting — Present participle of deport.
- depositor — A bank's depositors are the people who have accounts with that bank.
- dermatoid — resembling skin
- desertion — the act of deserting or abandoning or the state of being deserted or abandoned
- despoiler — to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detorting — Present participle of detort.
- detortion — The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.