9-letter words containing r, o, s, d
- desertion — the act of deserting or abandoning or the state of being deserted or abandoned
- desk work — work done at a desk.
- desoeuvre — with nothing to do
- desolater — One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.
- desolator — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
- desperado — A desperado is someone who does illegal, violent things without worrying about the danger.
- despoiler — to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- destroyed — to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
- destroyer — A destroyer is a small, heavily armed warship.
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- detectors — Plural form of detector.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- dexterous — Someone who is dexterous is very skilful and clever with their hands.
- dextrorse — (of some climbing plants) growing upwards in a helix from left to right or anticlockwise
- 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.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diasporas — Plural form of diaspora.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- 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
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dicrotism — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.
- didrikson — Mildred(Mrs. George Zaharias) 1913-56; U.S. athlete in many sports
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- dimissory — dismissing or giving permission to depart.
- dinosaurs — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dioestrus — diestrus.
- dioptrics — the branch of geometrical optics dealing with the formation of images by lenses.
- dioristic — defining
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- directors — Plural form of director.
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.
- disaccord — to be out of accord; disagree.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disciform — resembling the shape of a disc
- discloser — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- discolors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discolor.
- discolour — Alternative spelling of discolor.
- discordia — the ancient Roman goddess of discord, identified with the Greek goddess Eris.
- discoured — Simple past tense and past participle of discoure.
- discoures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discoure.
- discourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discovers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discover.
- discovert — (of a woman) not covert; not under the protection of a husband.