9-letter words containing p, r, o
- deploring — Present participle of deplore.
- deportees — to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
- deporting — Present participle of deport.
- depositor — A bank's depositors are the people who have accounts with that bank.
- depressor — a person or thing that depresses
- 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
- desperado — A desperado is someone who does illegal, violent things without worrying about the danger.
- despoiler — to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- developer — A developer is a person or a company that buys land and builds houses, offices, shops, or factories on it, or buys existing buildings and makes them more modern.
- devonport — a city in N Tasmania.
- diasporas — Plural form of diaspora.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- diatropic — the tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.
- dimorphic — having two forms.
- dioptrate — (of a compound eye) divided by a transverse line
- dioptrics — the branch of geometrical optics dealing with the formation of images by lenses.
- 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.
- dirt poor — lacking nearly all material means or resources for living.
- dirt-poor — lacking nearly all material means or resources for living.
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- disported — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disposure — disposal; disposition.
- disprison — to release from prison
- disprofit — to (cause to) fail to profit
- disproove — Obsolete form of disprove.
- disproval — The act of disproving; disproof.
- disproved — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disproven — Alternative irregular form of the Past participle of disprove.
- disprover — One who disproves.
- disproves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disprove.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- dna probe — a technique for identifying a segment of DNA, using a known sequence of nucleotide bases from a DNA strand to detect a complementary sequence in the sample by means of base pairing.
- dognapper — Agent noun of dognap; one who dognaps.
- donorship — a person who gives or donates.
- doorpiece — an architecturally treated doorframe.
- doorplate — a small identification plate on the outside door of a house or room, bearing the occupant's name, the apartment or house number, or the like.
- doorposts — Plural form of doorpost.
- doorsteps — Plural form of doorstep.
- doorstops — Plural form of doorstop.
- dopesters — Plural form of dopester.
- douzepers — the 12 great peers of the realm, seen as the symbolic heirs of Charlemagne's 12 chosen peers
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- draw upon — use as source or resource
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- drop arch — a pointed arch having radii of length less than the span.
- drop away — become fewer
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- drop bear — a mythical creature said to live in the outback; it resembles an oversized koala with sharp teeth and drops from trees to devour unwary passers-by
- drop dead — inspiring awe, astonishment, or envy: a drop-dead guest list; a drop-dead sable coat.