9-letter words containing o, r, s, i
- crossrail — a horizontal slat forming part of the back of a chair.
- crosstied — secured with crossties
- crossties — Plural form of crosstie.
- 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.
- crosswire — Crosshair; reticle.
- crosswise — Crosswise means diagonally across something.
- crotalism — a type of poisoning caused by ingestion of plants of the genus Crotalaria
- crotonism — poisoning by ingestion of croton oil, characterized by burning of the mouth, severe diarrhea, and colic, with possible death from respiratory or circulatory failure.
- croupiers — Plural form of croupier.
- crownings — Plural form of crowning.
- curculios — Plural form of curculio.
- curiosity — Curiosity is a desire to know about something.
- curiouser — (nonstandard) Comparative form of curious.
- curiously — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- cursorial — adapted for running
- cursorily — going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial: a cursory glance at a newspaper article.
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- custodier — a custodian
- cystiform — resembling a cyst
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- 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
- deodorise — Alternative spelling of deodorize.
- depositor — A bank's depositors are the people who have accounts with that bank.
- 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
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diasporas — Plural form of diaspora.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dicrotism — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.
- didrikson — Mildred(Mrs. George Zaharias) 1913-56; U.S. athlete in many sports
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- dimissory — dismissing or giving permission to depart.
- 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.
- dioestrus — diestrus.
- dioptrics — the branch of geometrical optics dealing with the formation of images by lenses.
- dioristic — defining
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- directors — Plural form of director.
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.
- disaccord — to be out of accord; disagree.