9-letter words containing a, e, r, o, d
- coverdale — Miles. 1488–1568, the first translator of the complete Bible into English (1535)
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- dannebrog — the Danish flag
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- de morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- de varona — Donna, born 1947, U.S. swimmer.
- dead drop — a prearranged secret spot where one espionage agent leaves a message or material for another agent to pick up.
- deaerator — a piece of apparatus that extracts a gas from a liquid
- dear john — a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fiancé that she is ending their relationship or informing her husband that she wants a divorce: Nothing is worse for a soldier's morale than getting a Dear John.
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decorated — (often initial capital letter) of pertaining to, or characteristic of the English gothic architecture of the late 13th through the late 14th centuries, characterized by curvilinear tracery, elaborate ornamental sculpture and vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques.
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- decorator — A decorator is a person whose job is to paint houses or put wallpaper up.
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deflorate — (of a plant) having lost its flowers
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- del sarto — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- delacroix — (Ferdinand Victor) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1798–1863, French romantic painter whose use of colour and free composition influenced impressionism. His paintings of historical and contemporary scenes include The Massacre at Chios (1824)
- delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)
- delegator — a person who delegates
- demeanors — Plural form of demeanor.
- demeanour — Your demeanour is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- democracy — A democracy is a country in which the people choose their government by voting for it.
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- democrazy — A democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity.
- demoparty — (demoscene) A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.
- deodorant — Deodorant is a substance that you can use on your body to hide or prevent the smell of sweat.
- deprogram — to cause to abandon a rigid commitment to certain beliefs, values, etc., as those of a religious cult, by undoing the effects of indoctrination
- dermatoid — resembling skin
- dermatome — a surgical instrument for cutting thin slices of skin, esp for grafting
- derogated — Simple past tense and past participle of derogate.