9-Letter Words Containing R

Druggy

Druggist

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One kind of "cowboy."

Shopping-mall unit

Some vivid rugs to revitalize pharmacy

""Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids.""

Druidism

Striking sounds

Drumble

Drumfire

Kettles' coverings

Drumly

Buns for bongo players (wordplay)

Dramatic percussion intros

Chicken leg (for a percussionist?)

Joint offering many spirits on credit

The tibia of a dressed fowl

They're tight and 31 across, perhaps

Draughtsmen who've been overindulgent (wordplay)

Tavern overdoers

Extremely enthusiastically supports alcoholic in his normal manner of behaving

Drupelet

Like DAD's lectures (wordplay)

Parched literary friend of an antiquary

More than dull

Dryness

Drypoint

Dealer in kippered herring, etc. Eng.

Was it his business not to get soaked, but just pickled (wordplay)

Plank across mud

Planking for marshy ground

Wooden aid for walking over wet ground

Ductwork

Percussion instruments with strings struck with hammers

English word

Dumpcart

Mechanic's garb

Brown grease spilt on clothing

Overalls of cotton fabric

Duplexer

Metal found in mud deposit round Russian river

How long things last

Lengths

Durative

Durned

""An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.""

Paper jacket for a book

Removable part of a book

Jacket on a book

Dwarfism

Resembling Happy.

DWARF extremely small

Dyarchy

My trade: in explosive

Demolition expert

Trade in my model for one of those with an explosive edge

Electrical machine with two armature windings

Dynatron

An ill habit or state of the constitution; formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.

A case of perpetual motion

One source of perpetual motion

Perpetual motion may prove fatal

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

""An emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease.""

Disorder involving wasting of muscle tissue etc.

Sense rage (anagram)

Agree new head shows enthusiasm

Enthusiasm of Strauss, for example

An alderman.

English word

Night owl's anathema, maybe

It's perhaps nobility before time

Nobility perhaps, but not of late

Earlship

English word

Set aside for tagged cattle (wordplay)

Set aside (for)

Designated organ and corrected faults

Not at all in jest.

Advanced, engaging retreat with intent

Sincerely and seriously

One phrase (anagram)

Sound-system accessory

They cater for a private reception

Parts of headsets

Some Secret Service wear

They may be custom-made for canals

Otoliths

Human that's like a fox (wordplay)

Like all mortals

Originating from our planet

Operating theatre is most filthy

Most nourishing, as a meal

Operating theatre is most dirty

Earthly

Adjective meaning resembling

Martian address (wordplay)

Human being (sci-fi)

One of us has to lean right, perhaps

Peanuts.

Goobers

Dawn of the Space Age (wordplay)

Up-coming world phenomenon (wordplay)

Famous picture from Apollo 8

Earthset

Puffball-like fungus

Two spinning bodies had fungus

Fungus with a spacy name

Hard water bubbling to the surface

Falling object's direction

Direction of a sunbeam.

Farming for defence (wordplay)

Rampart made of soil

Agriculture for defence

Angler's bait, perhaps

Soil-dwelling creature

Night crawler, for example

Listened without the speaker's knowledge

Listened in with attention like a judge

Eavesdropped

A steward's direction (wordplay)

To the Orient

To the sunrise

Listen in (on)

Act like an icicle (wordplay)

Rain on the roof?

So odd that it's not in the middle!

Entire 300 destroyed? That's odd!

Crank, socially and mechanically

""Any of numerous tropical American plants of the genus Echeveria, having thick, succulent leaves often clustered in a showy rosette.""

English word

Echogram

""Pl. echoviruses Any of a number of enteroviruses of the family Picornaviridae, inhabiting the gastrointestinal tract and associated with various diseases, such as viral meningitis, mild respiratory infections, and severe diarrhea in newborns.""

Green nuts (wordplay)

Core sheep (anagram)

Life-support system (wordplay)

All habitable areas, collectively

Ecraseur

Embryological layers

Ectomere

Lean-bodied person

Thin person required to model 22 top

One with a light body build

Ectosarc

Cold-blooded animal

Leader's an idiot - real stupid!

Leader of opinion (wordplay)

Journalistic leader, perhaps

Ones with class (wordplay)

Teachers and mentors, for example

Teachers and professors

Effecter

Some hormones

Efferent

Strenuous discovery of truffle (wordplay)

Whirlybird in the kitchen (wordplay)

Meringue maker's tool

Scrambler's aid

Eglatere

Say euro is around about $1,000, gross

Conspicuous and outrageously bad

Monstrous guise ogre conjured up

Egress

Genesis or Kinks making an appearance

Leaving as green is so rough

Leaving

Seems you've made a soft landing, ducky!

Cover for the sleeping sea bird (blue)

But soft! You've landed, ducky!

Shed light (on)

Say more, please

Fancy getting English leftist to speak!

Neoprene, for example

Material obtainable from ores - metal

Always securing final order for material

Click beetles

Elaterin

""A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen. mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.""

Scope in joint apartment (wordplay)

Enough space for drinking (wordplay)

Space for army manoeuvres (wordplay)

Elderly

Tree's in office of major

Church position

Church job appertaining to the Senior Service (wordplay)

Eldress

Sort of roll, A-E, etc (wordplay)

College of voters (wordplay)

College of presidents (wordplay)

George I's mother was Sophia, - of Hanover

Electret

They use charging stations

Cabling in circle with set broken

Powerful stuff offset with circle

Rouse the fiery Celt, perhaps!

Rouse fiery Celt, perhaps!

Cause thrilling excitement in (someone)

Item of current technology (wordplay)

Conductor (eg, in battery)

A lightning-conductor (wordplay)

Electro

Negative bunch (wordplay)

Particles with a negative charge

Prisoners of the atom.

Electrum

""A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection. Confection.""

They can give you a lift

Lifts, in London

Businesspeople take them down

Elicitor

Legal removers

Not perhaps for the present, one's alibi

Place to be for an alibi

Oz book may be in another location

""To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing. as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.""

Things that give off fragrances, for example

They use preservatives

Prohibited, in a way

Banned officially

Commercial blockers (wordplay)

Restrictions imposed on commerce.

Legal prohibitions on commerce

Boarding every other term - quite mad!

Venturing to put the compiler up? Mad!

Boarding, as a ship

Turn red, maybe

Induce squirming in, perhaps

Cause to blush, maybe

Embar

Crooked bank manager, maybe

Marion Crane in "Psycho"

One who steals funds

Beer in German spa causes resentment

Creates sour feelings in

Engenders rancor

Emblazer

Embodier

Emborder

Relief workers (wordplay)

Raised-letter printers

Their printing is raised relief

Surrounded with foliage

Sheltered women mostly breed indiscriminately

One guilty of embracery.

Embracer

Nobbling race outsider could be right by me

Getting up in arms (wordplay)

Activity at a joyful reunion

The way to have one in arms

Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.

To confuse; to entangle.

Opening amber fluid OK

Opening in a wall for firing through

Opening to fire nasty Amber beyond doubt

Weaken, in a way

Embellish (with needlework?)

Do decorative needlework

Ornament with needlework.

Involved in confusion.

Caught up

Confused

Get tanned via the web - modern way

Embrute

Embryoid

""Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.""

In an early stage.

In early stage of development

At an early stage

Emeerate

Development in Greece men vandalised

A coming out.

A coming forth

Occasion to break glass (wordplay)

Subject of Truman's December speech

Sudden unforeseen crisis

Water-rooted plants

Ones coming into view

Comers

Surfacings

They've left me staring in bewilderment

People leaving, streaming out

Ones moving far from home

Left the country, perhaps

Sought greener pastures, perhaps

Went abroad to live

Uses an exit visa, perhaps

Leaves regimes at loggerheads!

Goes on leave for good

Pragmatic way to price mail (wordplay)

Mail price (anagram)

Based on observation or experience

Hire powers (wordplay)

Businesses from East developed polymers

Bargaining-table members

Market places

Commercial centers

Marketplaces

Authorized to show strength (wordplay)

Set free from tempo, we're dancing

Able to make decisions

Theodora and Eugenie

Eugenie and Catherine

Sirens, for example

Empurple

Empurple

Empyrean

Mirroring software programs

Programs that let computers run software written for other systems

Copiers

Metalworkers, at times

Surfacers of a sort

Makers of cloisonne.

Charming.

Echo called about our being in love!

Our mean Ed (anagram)

In love with - named rou (anagram)

At last the singer is bewitching

Stock character in some fantasy novels

Magician from Nabokov, then Crane, perhaps with...

Enchaser

Makes hard to read, in a way

Went around

Girdled enchantress engages fifty in climax

Surrounded by theatre seats during the finale

Cardinal points to cleric's fancy rings

Goes round

Surrounds

Encloser

It's included, with a letter say

Does this pen keep it all in (wordplay)

Corral, for one

An experience of The Clash (wordplay)

Run into middle of opened display case

Regularly seen to oppose meeting

Give hope to (someone)

Give support to, stimulate hope

Argue once mistakenly and inspire

Incarnadine. Possibly for non-crimes

Covered with a hard coating

Caked, in a way

Like a secure transmission, often

Describes information in code

Of words, coded or enciphered

Hampers with identifications of food additives (about a hundred)

Broken by premier of chefs, code of added ingredients proves a hindrance

Burdens

Puts on the line

Places at risk

Puts in peril

Endbrain

Winning finish gets attention in golf

Delightful finale holds attention

Winning over the listener in the finish

Takes a crack at

Exerts effort.

Industrious efforts

Try to finish always as you might say

How trying this is!

Do one's best around Eve Cook (wordplay)

Inner layers: Bot

Type of gland

Thyroid or pituitary.

Hormonal, in a sense

Endoderm

Occurring with absorption of energy.

Mineral in mineral

Hard push up under butt for heavy person

Portly sort reinvented Homer, disheartened Pound

Ponder varying hydrogen in body chemical

It causes a runner's high

A hormone terminus, or a Greek letter N

Names on bank checks

Receivers of checks

To whom notes are assigned

Those who sign checks

Supporters or signers

Check signers

Supporter's activity

Stop or give us a song in confirmation

Signing, as a check

Endorsor

Endosarc

Nourishing tissue in seeds

Nourishment for a plant embryo

Tissue in plant seed - spend more (anagram)