9-letter words containing r, o, d, e
- custodier — a custodian
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- dannebrog — the Danish flag
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- de forest — Lee. 1873–1961, US inventor of telegraphic, telephonic, and radio equipment: patented the first triode valve (1907)
- de moivre — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1667–1754, French mathematician in England.
- de morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- de varona — Donna, born 1947, U.S. swimmer.
- dead drop — a prearranged secret spot where one espionage agent leaves a message or material for another agent to pick up.
- deaerator — a piece of apparatus that extracts a gas from a liquid
- 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.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- deceleron — (on a fixed-wing aircraft) a type of aileron that enables the aircraft to have a degree of control when it goes into a roll
- deceptory — inclined to deceive
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- deck over — to complete the construction of the upper deck between the bulwarks of (a vessel)
- decocture — the essence or liquor resulting from decoction
- decoherer — a device that re-establishes a coherer to usual levels of receptiveness
- decolored — to remove the color from; deprive of color; bleach.
- decontrol — When governments decontrol an activity, they remove controls from it so that companies or organizations have more freedom.
- deconvert — An apostate.
- decorated — (often initial capital letter) of pertaining to, or characteristic of the English gothic architecture of the late 13th through the late 14th centuries, characterized by curvilinear tracery, elaborate ornamental sculpture and vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques.
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- decorator — A decorator is a person whose job is to paint houses or put wallpaper up.
- decoupler — a person or device that disconnects parts that are joined
- decourous — Misspelling of decorous.
- decretion — The act of decreasing.
- decretory — characterized by making an absolute and final decision
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deerhound — a very large rough-coated breed of dog of the greyhound type
- defecator — One who defecates.
- defectors — Plural form of defector.
- defensory — (archaic) Tending to defend; defensive.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- deflorate — (of a plant) having lost its flowers
- defoggers — Plural form of defogger.
- deforests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deforest.
- deforming — Present participle of deform.