9-letter words containing t, i, r, e, d
- disorient — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.
- disported — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disputers — Plural form of disputer.
- disrepute — bad repute; low regard; disfavor (usually preceded by in or into): Some literary theories have fallen into disrepute.
- disrooted — Simple past tense and past participle of disroot.
- disrupted — Interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.
- disrupter — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- dissector — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
- dissenter — a person who dissents, as from an established church, political party, or majority opinion.
- disserted — to discourse on a subject.
- distaffer — a woman, especially in a field or place usually or generally dominated by men: the first distaffer to have a seat on the stock exchange.
- distemper — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- distender — One who, or that which, distends.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- distiller — an apparatus for distilling, as a condenser; still.
- distorted — not truly or completely representing the facts or reality; misrepresented; false: She has a distorted view of life.
- distorter — One that distorts.
- distraite — (of a woman) inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.
- disturbed — marked by symptoms of mental illness: a disturbed personality.
- disturber — Someone or something that disturbs; a disrupter.
- disturned — Simple past tense and past participle of disturn.
- diterpene — (chemistry) any terpene formed from four isoprene units, and having twenty carbon atoms; includes vitamin A, the gibberellins, and various biologically active lactones such as quassin.
- dithering — a trembling; vibration.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- dittander — a plant, Lepidium latifolium, of coastal regions of Europe, N Africa, and SW Asia, with clusters of small white flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- diuranate — (inorganic chemistry) The dibasic anion U2O72- or any salt containing this anion.
- diuretics — Plural form of diuretic.
- divergent — diverging; differing; deviating.
- diversity — the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness: diversity of opinion.
- diverting — serving to divert; entertaining; amusing.
- divertive — diverting; amusing.
- divesture — the act of divesting.
- dixiecrat — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- dog-tired — utterly exhausted; worn out.
- doleritic — Of the nature of dolerite.
- dormitive — having the effect of inducing sleep
- dosimeter — a device carried on the person for measuring the quantity of ionizing radiation, as gamma rays, to which one has been exposed.
- dosimetry — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- doughtier — Comparative form of doughty.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- dramatise — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- dramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- dreamiest — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- dreamtime — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- dreariest — Superlative form of dreary.
- dried out — recovered; detoxified
- drift ice — detached floating ice in masses that drift with the wind or ocean currents, as in the polar seas.