9-letter words containing r, h, o, d
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- co durham — County Durham
- codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- crocheted — made with a crochet hook
- crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- d-horizon — a stratum, as of rock, sometimes underlying the C-horizon
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- dashboard — The dashboard in a car is the panel facing the driver's seat where most of the instruments and switches are.
- dear john — a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fiancé that she is ending their relationship or informing her husband that she wants a divorce: Nothing is worse for a soldier's morale than getting a Dear John.
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decoherer — a device that re-establishes a coherer to usual levels of receptiveness
- deerhound — a very large rough-coated breed of dog of the greyhound type
- dehorning — Present participle of dehorn.
- delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)
- dethroned — Simple past tense and past participle of dethrone.
- dethroner — One who dethrones.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- devoureth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'devour'.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- diarrhoea — If someone has diarrhoea, a lot of liquid faeces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- dichromic — of or involving only two colours; dichromatic
- dihydroxy — (of a molecule) containing two hydroxyl groups.
- dimorphic — having two forms.
- 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.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- 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
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- dogshores — the pieces of timber used to prop up a boat prior to its launch
- dolichuri — poetic term
- donorship — a person who gives or donates.