9-letter words containing a, d, u, s
- audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
- auditions — Plural form of audition.
- auditress — a female auditor
- auslander — (in a German-speaking country) a foreigner
- autolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of autolyse.
- autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- bass drum — a large shallow drum of low and indefinite pitch
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- caladiums — Plural form of caladium.
- calloused — A foot or hand that is calloused is covered in calluses.
- casadesus — Robert [rob-ert;; French raw-ber] /ˈrɒb ərt;; French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1899–1972, French pianist and composer.
- cascadura — a small Trinidadian catfish of the family Callichthyidae, with tough scaly skin
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- cashed up — having plenty of money
- caucasoid — denoting, relating to, or belonging to the lighter-complexioned supposed racial group of mankind, which includes the peoples indigenous to Europe, N Africa, SW Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and their descendants in other parts of the world
- caudillos — Plural form of caudillo.
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- churidars — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crusaders — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusading — campaigning
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- dachshund — A dachshund is a small dog that has very short legs, a long body, and long ears.
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- daiquiris — Plural form of daiquiri.
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- daliesque — of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali: giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.
- damasquin — decorate metal
- damasus i — Saint, pope a.d. 366–384.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- dantesque — in the style of Dante; characterized by impressive elevation of style with deep solemnity or somberness of feeling.
- darius ii — (Ochus) died 404 b.c, king of Persia 424–404 (son of Artaxerxes I).
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.