9-letter words containing r, h, d, i
- dishumour — to upset or offend
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- disrelish — to have a distaste for; dislike.
- disshiver — to break in pieces
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- dithering — a trembling; vibration.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- dolichuri — poetic term
- donorship — a person who gives or donates.
- 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.
- dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
- drenching — to wet thoroughly; soak.
- driftfish — any of several butterfishes, especially of the genus Psenes, inhabiting tropical waters.
- drillhole — a hole drilled in the ground, usually for exploratory purposes
- drillship — a ship equipped with a drill rig and engaged in offshore oil and gas exploration, oceanographic research, etc.
- dronishly — in a droning manner
- drop-ship — to ship (goods) as a drop shipment: The books will be drop-shipped by the publisher to your home.
- droplight — an electric or gas lamp suspended from the ceiling or wall by a flexible cord or tube.
- droshkies — Plural form of droshky.
- dynorphin — (biochemistry) Any of a class of opioid peptides that arise from the precursor protein prodynorphin.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dysphoric — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- eldership — Seniority; the state or condition of being older.
- endorheic — (of a lake or basin) Internally drained; having no outlet.
- endorphin — Any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological functions. They are peptides that activate the body’s opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect.
- enhydrite — a type of mineral containing water
- enshrined — Simple past tense and past participle of enshrine.
- ephedrine — A crystalline alkaloid drug obtained from some ephedras. It causes constriction of the blood vessels and widening of the bronchial passages and is used to relieve asthma and hay fever.
- ephemerid — (zoology) Any member of the Ephemeridae.
- eriophyid — a type of microscopic mite that causes plant damage
- erythroid — Of or relating to erythrocytes.
- etherised — Simple past tense and past participle of etherise.
- etherized — Simple past tense and past participle of etherize.
- euthyroid — having a thyroid gland that functions normally
- faidherbe — Louis Léon César. 1818–89, French soldier and governor of Senegal (1854–65); founder of Dakar
- fairyhood — a fairy nature or state: the fairyhood of Puck.
- firsthand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- fishguard — a port and resort in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire: ferry connections to Cork and Rosslare. Pop: 3193 (2001)
- freighted — goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.
- friedrich — a male given name.
- friendish — Like, or relating to a friend.
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- garnished — Simple past tense and past participle of garnish.