9-letter words containing p, a, e, r, d
- departeth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'depart'.
- departing — to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today. The train departs at 10:52.
- departure — Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- depraving — Present participle of deprave.
- depravity — Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
- deprecate — If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
- depredate — to plunder or destroy; pillage
- deprogram — to cause to abandon a rigid commitment to certain beliefs, values, etc., as those of a religious cult, by undoing the effects of indoctrination
- depurated — Simple past tense and past participle of depurate.
- despaired — loss of hope; hopelessness.
- despairer — a person who despairs
- desparate — Misspelling of desperate.
- desperado — A desperado is someone who does illegal, violent things without worrying about the danger.
- desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
- diapering — Present participle of diaper.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- dioptrate — (of a compound eye) divided by a transverse line
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disappear — to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- disparage — to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.
- dispauper — to divest of the status of a person having the privileges of a pauper, as of public support or of legal rights as a pauper.
- dispersal — The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- dispraise — to speak of as undeserving or unworthy; censure; disparage.
- disrepair — the condition of needing repair; an impaired or neglected state.
- dna probe — a technique for identifying a segment of DNA, using a known sequence of nucleotide bases from a DNA strand to detect a complementary sequence in the sample by means of base pairing.
- dognapper — Agent noun of dognap; one who dognaps.
- doorplate — a small identification plate on the outside door of a house or room, bearing the occupant's name, the apartment or house number, or the like.
- drainpipe — a large pipe that carries away the discharge of waste pipes, soil pipes, etc.
- draperies — coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- drop bear — a mythical creature said to live in the outback; it resembles an oversized koala with sharp teeth and drops from trees to devour unwary passers-by
- drop dead — inspiring awe, astonishment, or envy: a drop-dead guest list; a drop-dead sable coat.
- drop leaf — a hinged leaf attached to the end or side of a table that can be raised to extend the tabletop or folded vertically downward when not in use.
- drop seat — a hinged seat, as in a taxicab or bus, that may be pulled down for use when an additional seat is needed.
- drop-dead — inspiring awe, astonishment, or envy: a drop-dead guest list; a drop-dead sable coat.
- droppable — Capable of being dropped (especially by an aircraft).
- dry plate — a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
- ear drops — Ear drops are medicine that you put directly in your ears one drop at a time.
- eavesdrip — the falling or dripping of rainwater from the eaves of a building
- eavesdrop — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- endocarps — Plural form of endocarp.
- endpapers — Plural form of endpaper.