9-letter words containing r, d, l
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- curlicued — Simple past tense and past participle of curlicue.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- cylinders — Plural form of cylinder.
- cylindric — Of or relating to cylinders; shaped like a cylinder.
- dado rail — a moulding at about waist height on an interior wall, used for decoration and to protect the wall
- dairyland — an area or region specializing in dairy production, as Wisconsin and Minnesota in the U.S.
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- daredevil — Daredevil people enjoy doing physically dangerous things.
- darklings — in darkness
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- darlingly — in a darling or charming manner
- dartingly — In a darting manner; rapidly.
- dastardly — If you describe an action as dastardly, you mean it is wicked and intended to hurt someone.
- day labor — workers hired on a daily basis only, especially unskilled labor.
- day-liner — a train, boat, etc., having a regularly scheduled route during daylight hours.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- de la rue — Warren, 1815–89, English astronomer and inventor.
- de valera — Eamon (ˈeɪmən). 1882–1975, Irish statesman; president of Sinn Féin (1917–26) and of the Dáil (1918–22); formed the Fianna Fáil party (1927); prime minister (1937–48; 1951–54; 1957–59) and president (1959–73) of the Irish Republic
- dealmaker — A dealmaker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- decaliter — dekaliter
- decalitre — ten litres. One decalitre is equal to about 2.2 imperial gallons
- deceleron — (on a fixed-wing aircraft) a type of aileron that enables the aircraft to have a degree of control when it goes into a roll
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- deciliter — one tenth of a liter (3.376 fluid ounces or 6.1024 cubic inches)
- decilitre — one tenth of a litre
- declaimer — to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declareth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'declare'.
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- decliners — Plural form of decliner.
- declutter — to simplify or get rid of mess, disorder, complications, etc, from
- decolored — to remove the color from; deprive of color; bleach.
- decontrol — When governments decontrol an activity, they remove controls from it so that companies or organizations have more freedom.
- decoupler — a person or device that disconnects parts that are joined
- decretals — a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation (Liber Extra) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- deculture — to deculturate.
- deer lick — a naturally or artificially salty area of ground where deer come to lick the salt
- deerfield — a city in NE Illinois.
- defaulter — A defaulter is someone who does not do something that they are legally supposed to do, such as make a payment at a particular time, or appear in a court of law.
- deferable — capable of being deferred or postponed: a deferrable project.
- deferrals — Plural form of deferral.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- deflexure — the act or condition of deflection or deviation
- deflorate — (of a plant) having lost its flowers
- deglorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- dekaliter — ten liters, or one tenth of a hectoliter (2.6418 gallons liquid measure or 1.135 pecks dry measure): abbrev. dal