9-letter words containing r, o, d
- aerodrome — An aerodrome is a place or area where small aircraft can land and take off.
- affoorded — Simple past tense and past participle of affoord.
- affordeth — Archaic third-person singular form of afford.
- affording — to be able to do, manage, or bear without serious consequence or adverse effect: The country can't afford another drought.
- affronted — experiencing an insult
- aforehand — beforehand; in advance
- aforesaid — Aforesaid means the same as aforementioned.
- aforesayd — Obsolete spelling of aforesaid.
- afterbody — any discarded part that continues to trail a satellite, rocket, etc, in orbit
- afterload — (physiology) The load on a working muscle from a constant opposing force.
- afterword — An afterword is a short essay at the end of a book, usually written by the author.
- agrodolce — an Italian sweet-and-sour sauce, made with onions, garlic, red wine vinegar, sugar, and raisins
- air-bound — stopped up by air.
- airdromes — Plural form of airdrome.
- aldershot — a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)
- all-round — An all-round person is good at a lot of different skills, academic subjects, or sports.
- almodóvar — Pedro. born 1949, Spanish film director. His provocative black comedies include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), The Flower of My Secret (1995), Talk to Her (2002), Volver (2006), and The Skin I Live In (2011)
- almoravid — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
- altdorfer — Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). ?1480–?1538, German painter and engraver: one of the earliest landscape painters
- amiloride — a potassium-sparing diuretic, C 6 H 8 ClN 7 O, used in the treatment of hypertension.
- amortised — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
- amortized — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
- anandrous — (of flowers) having no stamens
- andorra-i — (language) A parallel logic programming language with the OR-parallelism of Aurora and the AND-parallelism of Parlog.
- andragogy — the methods or techniques used to teach adults: Many educators believe that the principles of andragogy, as advanced by Malcolm Knowles, have great relevance to adult education; others are not so certain.
- androcles — (in Roman legend) a slave whose life was spared in the arena by a lion from whose paw he had once extracted a thorn
- androgens — Plural form of androgen.
- androgeus — a son of Minos and Pasiphaë who fell victim to Athenian King Aegeus: in revenge, Minos waged war on the Athenians and forced them to send a tribute of seven maidens and seven youths to the Minotaur every nine years.
- androgyne — an androgynous plant or animal
- androgyny — Androgyny is the state of being neither distinctly masculine nor distinctly feminine.
- androides — Dated form of android.
- andrology — the branch of medicine concerned with diseases in men, esp of the reproductive organs
- andromeda — the daughter of Cassiopeia and wife of Perseus, who saved her from a sea monster
- androsace — any plant of the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having basal leaves and white or reddish flowers.
- anhydrous — containing no water, esp no water of crystallization
- anode ray — a stream of positive ions traveling from a metallic anode to the cathode in a gas-discharge tube.
- anthropod — Misspelling of arthropod.
- antidoron — consecrated bread
- antiworld — a hypothetical or supposed world or universe composed of antimatter
- apeldoorn — a town in the Netherlands, in central Gelderland province: nearby is the summer residence of the Dutch royal family. Pop: 156 000 (2003 est)
- aperiodic — not periodic; not occurring at regular intervals
- aphorized — Simple past tense and past participle of aphorize.
- aphrodite — the goddess of love and beauty, daughter of Zeus
- apodiform — (zoology) Belonging to the order Apodiformes, including swifts and hummingbirds.
- aquaboard — a board that can be used to ride on water
- aquadrome — a venue for water sports
- arachnoid — the middle of the three membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord
- arbor day — a tree-planting day observed individually by the states of the U.S., usually in spring
- arborized — Simple past tense and past participle of arborize.
- arcsecond — unit used in astronomy