9-letter words containing r, e, o, i
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deforming — Present participle of deform.
- deformity — A deformity is a part of someone's body which is not the normal shape because of injury or illness, or because they were born this way.
- deglorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- dehorning — Present participle of dehorn.
- deionizer — A device that deionizes something.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- delacroix — (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1798–1863, French romantic painter whose use of colour and free composition influenced impressionism. His paintings of historical and contemporary scenes include The Massacre at Chios (1824)
- 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
- demiworld — demimonde (defs 4, 5).
- dentiform — shaped like a tooth
- deodorise — Alternative spelling of deodorize.
- deodorize — If you deodorize something, you remove unpleasant smells from it.
- deorbited — Simple past tense and past participle of deorbit.
- deploring — Present participle of deplore.
- deporting — Present participle of deport.
- depositor — A bank's depositors are the people who have accounts with that bank.
- dermatoid — resembling skin
- 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
- detorting — Present participle of detort.
- detortion — The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detrition — the act of rubbing or wearing away by friction
- detrivore — (biology) Any organism that feeds on detritus.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deviatory — Tending to deviate.
- devouring — Present participle of devour.
- deworming — Present participle of deworm.
- diarrhoea — If someone has diarrhoea, a lot of liquid faeces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- dibromide — a chemical compound that contains two bromine atoms per molecule
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- diner-out — a person who dines out.
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- dioestrus — diestrus.
- dioptrate — (of a compound eye) divided by a transverse line
- 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.
- dire wolf — an extinct wolf, Canis dirus, widespread in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch, having a larger body and a smaller brain than the modern wolf.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- directors — Plural form of director.
- directory — a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people.
- discloser — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- discoured — Simple past tense and past participle of discoure.
- discoures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discoure.