9-letter words containing t, o, r, e
- desolater — One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.
- desolator — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
- 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
- dethroned — Simple past tense and past participle of dethrone.
- dethroner — One who dethrones.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- detonator — A detonator is a small amount of explosive or a piece of electrical or electronic equipment which is used to explode a bomb or other explosive device.
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detorting — Present participle of detort.
- detortion — The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detractor — The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
- detrition — the act of rubbing or wearing away by friction
- detrivore — (biology) Any organism that feeds on detritus.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- deviatory — Tending to deviate.
- devonport — a city in N Tasmania.
- devoureth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'devour'.
- 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.
- dichroite — cordierite.
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- diner-out — a person who dines out.
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- dioestrus — diestrus.
- dioptrate — (of a compound eye) divided by a transverse line
- 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.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- directors — Plural form of director.
- directory — a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people.
- discovert — (of a woman) not covert; not under the protection of a husband.
- disforest — To disafforest.
- disorient — to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- disported — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disrooted — Simple past tense and past participle of disroot.
- dissector — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- distorted — not truly or completely representing the facts or reality; misrepresented; false: She has a distorted view of life.
- distorter — One that distorts.
- ditrochee — a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
- doctorate — Doctor of Philosophy (def 1).
- doctoress — a female doctor
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.