9-letter words containing o, r, t, h
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- dethroned — Simple past tense and past participle of dethrone.
- dethroner — One who dethrones.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- devoureth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'devour'.
- 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.
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- dordrecht — a city in SW Netherlands, on the Waal River.
- doughtier — Comparative form of doughty.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- downright — thorough; absolute; out-and-out: a downright falsehood.
- downthrow — a throwing down or being thrown down; overthrow.
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
- dropcloth — A large piece of plastic or canvas put over something to protect it from construction debris or paint.
- droplight — an electric or gas lamp suspended from the ceiling or wall by a flexible cord or tube.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- eachother — (nonstandard) misspelling of each other Typically used in the context of
- earth-god — a god of fertility and vegetation.
- earthborn — born on or sprung from the earth; of earthly origin.
- earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
- earthworm — any one of numerous annelid worms that burrow in soil and feed on soil nutrients and decaying organic matter.
- ectomorph — a person of the ectomorphic type.
- ectotherm — a cold-blooded animal.
- edgeworth — Maria, 1767–1849, English novelist.
- either-or — presenting an unavoidable need to choose between two alternatives
- eleuthero — (informal) The shrub Eleutherococcus senticosus, used in traditional medicine.
- ellsworth — Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
- endotherm — An animal that is dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat; a warm-blooded animal.
- enthroned — Formally placed in a position.
- enwrought — (archaic) Made from (a material).
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- erythroid — Of or relating to erythrocytes.
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- euthyroid — having a thyroid gland that functions normally
- eutrophic — (of a lake or other body of water) rich in nutrients and so supporting a dense plant population, the decomposition of which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen.
- exhibitor — A person who displays works of art or other items of interest at an exhibition.
- exhorteth — Archaic third-person singular form of exhort.