9-letter words containing r, h, i
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.
- dirichlet — Peter Gustav Lejeune [pey-tuh r goo s-tahf luh-zhœn] /ˈpeɪ tər ˈgʊs tɑf ləˈʒœn/ (Show IPA), 1805–59, German mathematician.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dischurch — to cause (a church) to no longer be a church
- dish rack — frame for drying dishes
- dishonors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishonor.
- dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- 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.
- earthlike — Of a planet, resembling the Earth.
- earthling — an inhabitant of earth; mortal.
- earthrise — the rising of the earth above the horizon of the moon or other celestial body, viewed from that body's surface or from a spacecraft orbiting it.
- echeveria — any of numerous succulent plants of the genus Echeveria, native to tropical America and having thick leaves characteristically forming rosettes.
- 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.
- echovirus — any of numerous retroviruses of the picornavirus group, some harmless and others associated with various human disorders, as aseptic meningitis.
- 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
- einherjar — (Norse mythology) the undead spirits of warriors who died bravely in battle, brought to Valhalla by the valkyries, where they eternally feast and prepare daily for the inevitable events of Ragnarok.
- either-or — presenting an unavoidable need to choose between two alternatives
- ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
- eldership — Seniority; the state or condition of being older.
- eleutheri — a fictitious secret society of free thinkers
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- enciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encipher.