9-letter words containing t, o, r, s
- dimestore — Alternative spelling of dime store.
- 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.
- 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).
- disprofit — to (cause to) fail to profit
- disrooted — Simple past tense and past participle of disroot.
- disruptor — 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.
- 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.
- doctoress — a female doctor
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- doomsters — Plural form of doomster.
- doorposts — Plural form of doorpost.
- doorstead — the structure of a doorway.
- doorsteps — Plural form of doorstep.
- doorstone — a stone serving as the sill of a doorway.
- doorstops — Plural form of doorstop.
- dopesters — Plural form of dopester.
- dosemeter — Alternative form of dosimeter.
- 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.
- dotterels — Plural form of dotterel.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downstair — down the stairs.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.
- draw lots — to decide an issue by using lots
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- drop seat — a hinged seat, as in a taxicab or bus, that may be pulled down for use when an additional seat is needed.
- drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- dropworts — Plural form of dropwort.
- drugstore — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- dry stock — cattle that are raised for meat
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- duststorm — Phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.