9-letter words containing s, i, d, r, a
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- crusading — campaigning
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- daiquiris — Plural form of daiquiri.
- darius ii — (Ochus) died 404 b.c, king of Persia 424–404 (son of Artaxerxes I).
- darklings — in darkness
- darkslide — Alternative form of dark slide.
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- dayspring — the dawn
- deaneries — Plural form of deanery.
- decigrams — Plural form of decigram.
- degarnish — to remove ornamentation from (something)
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- derailers — Plural form of derailer.
- derivates — Plural form of derivate.
- desideria — an ardent longing, as for something lost.
- desirable — Something that is desirable is worth having or doing because it is useful, necessary, or popular.
- desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- despaired — loss of hope; hopelessness.
- despairer — a person who despairs
- detailers — Plural form of detailer.
- detainers — Plural form of detainer.
- diaereses — Plural form of diaeresis.
- diaeresis — the mark ¨, in writing placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that it is to be pronounced separately rather than forming a diphthong with the first, as in some spellings of coöperate, naïve, etc
- diagraphs — Plural form of diagraph.
- diameters — Plural form of diameter.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diapirism — the existence of diapirs
- diarising — Present participle of diarise.
- diaristic — stylistically like a diary
- diarrheas — Plural form of diarrhea.
- diasporas — Plural form of diaspora.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- diatribes — Plural form of diatribe.
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.
- dies irae — a Latin hymn on the Day of Judgment, commonly sung in a Requiem Mass.
- digastric — (of a muscle) having two bellies with an intermediate tendon.
- dihedrals — Plural form of dihedral.
- 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.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disablers — Plural form of disabler.
- disaccord — to be out of accord; disagree.
- disaffirm — to deny; contradict.