9-letter words containing t, o, r, s
- crosstown — A crosstown bus or route is one that crosses the main roads or transportation lines of a town or city.
- crosstree — either of a pair of wooden or metal braces on the head of a mast to support the topmast, etc
- crosswort — a herbaceous perennial Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium cruciata, with pale yellow flowers and whorls of hairy leaves
- crotalism — a type of poisoning caused by ingestion of plants of the genus Crotalaria
- crotchets — Plural form of crotchet.
- crotonism — poisoning by ingestion of croton oil, characterized by burning of the mouth, severe diarrhea, and colic, with possible death from respiratory or circulatory failure.
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crowfoots — Plural form of crowfoot.
- crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
- cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- curiosity — Curiosity is a desire to know about something.
- custodier — a custodian
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- customers — A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cystiform — resembling a cyst
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
- de forest — Lee. 1873–1961, US inventor of telegraphic, telephonic, and radio equipment: patented the first triode valve (1907)
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- defectors — Plural form of defector.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deforests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deforest.
- defrosted — Simple past tense and past participle of defrost.
- defroster — a device by which the de-icing process of a refrigerator is accelerated, usually by circulating the refrigerant without the expansion process
- del sarto — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- deportees — to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
- depositor — A bank's depositors are the people who have accounts with that bank.
- derogates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of derogate.
- desertion — the act of deserting or abandoning or the state of being deserted or abandoned
- 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
- 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.
- dicrotism — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.