9-letter words containing r, e, a, d, s, o
- lensboard — the usually removable front panel of a view camera or enlarger on which the lens is mounted.
- lodestars — Plural form of lodestar.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- masonried — built of masonry
- masterdom — complete control; mastery
- meandrous — meandering; winding; rambling.
- mediators — Plural form of mediator.
- moderates — Plural form of moderate.
- mooseyard — an area of trodden snow where moose spend the winter
- moralised — Simple past tense and past participle of moralise.
- newsboard — bulletin board.
- nonsacred — Not sacred.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- notarised — to certify (a document, contract, etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public.
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- oddsmaker — a person who calculates or predicts the outcome of a contest, as in sports or politics, and sets betting odds.
- oleanders — Plural form of oleander.
- ordinates — Plural form of ordinate.
- organised — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- outraised — Simple past tense and past participle of outraise.
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- outstared — Simple past tense and past participle of outstare.
- overdraws — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdraw.
- overheads — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- overlands — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- overshade — to cast shade over.
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- panderous — resembling a pander
- parasoled — having a parasol
- podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- ponderosa — a North American pine tree
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- radio set — an apparatus that receives radio signals
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- road test — test of vehicle in use
- road user — anyone who uses a road, such as a pedestrian, cyclist or motorist
- road-test — to test (an automotive vehicle) under normal operating conditions on the road, as by a potential purchaser.
- roadhouse — an inn, dance hall, tavern, nightclub, etc., located on a highway, usually beyond city limits.
- roadstead — road (def 4).
- rodgersia — a type of flowering plant which grows in shady and moist conditions
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
- rudaceous — (of conglomerate, breccia, and similar rocks) composed of coarse-grained material
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- sanderson — Tessa. born 1956, British javelin-thrower: won gold at the 1984 Olympics
- sarcodine — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scorecard — a card for keeping score of a sports contest and, especially in team sports, for identifying the players by name, number, and position.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.