8-letter words containing a, u
- damanhur — a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta. Pop: 229 000 (2005 est)
- damascus — the capital of Syria, in the southwest: reputedly the oldest city in the world, having been inhabited continuously since before 2000 bc. Pop: 2 317 000 (2005 est)
- dan buoy — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
- dandruff — Dandruff is small white pieces of dead skin in someone's hair, or fallen from someone's hair.
- danseuse — a female ballet dancer
- danubian — of or relating to the river Danube
- dardanus — the son of Zeus and Electra who founded the royal house of Troy
- darius i — known as Darius the Great, surname Hystaspis. ?550–486 bc, king of Persia (521–486), who extended the Persian empire and crushed the revolt of the Ionian city states (500). He led two expeditions against Greece but was defeated at Marathon (490)
- dartrous — of or pertaining to dartre
- dasyures — Plural form of dasyure.
- dasyurid — Any carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
- data bus — (architecture) The bus (connections between and within the CPU, memory, and peripherals) used to carry data. Other connections are the address bus and control signals. The width and clock rate of the data bus determine its data rate (the number of bytes per second it can carry), which is one of the main factors determining the processing power of a computer. Most current processor designs use a 32-bit bus, meaning that 32 bits of data can be transferred at once. Some processors have an internal data bus which is wider than their external bus in order to make external connections cheaper while retaining some of the benefits in processing power of a wider bus. See also data path.
- datacube — Alternative spelling of data cube.
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- daubigny — Charles François (ʃarl frɑ̃swa). 1817–78, French landscape painter associated with the Barbizon School
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- daunting — Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- dauphine — the wife of a dauphin
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- deal out — If someone deals out a punishment or harmful action, they punish or harm someone.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- deathful — characterized by or causing death
- debutant — a person who is making a first appearance in a particular capacity, such as a sportsperson playing in a first game for a team
- deciduae — Plural form of decidua.
- decidual — the endometrium of a pregnant uterus that in many of the higher mammals is cast off at parturition.
- defaults — Plural form of default.
- defrauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defraud.
- delaunay — Robert (rɔbɛr). 1885–1941, French painter, whose abstract use of colour characterized Orphism, an attempt to introduce more colour into austere forms of Cubism
- demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- denature — to change the nature of
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- denudate — denuded; bare
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- detraque — insane person
- deuddarn — a type of two-tiered Welsh dresser or cupboard
- deutzias — Plural form of deutzia.
- devalued — having a reduced value or worth
- devaluer — One who, or that which, devalues.
- devalues — Reduce or underestimate the worth or importance of.
- dialogue — Dialogue is communication or discussion between people or groups of people such as governments or political parties.
- dianthus — any Eurasian caryophyllaceous plant of the widely cultivated genus Dianthus, such as the carnation, pink, and sweet william
- diapause — a period of suspended development and growth accompanied by decreased metabolism in insects and some other animals. It is correlated with seasonal changes
- dilaudid — an addictive, narcotic painkiller, C17H20ClNO3, that is stronger than morphine
- dilutant — A diluting agent; a diluent, or thinner.
- diluvial — pertaining to or caused by a flood or deluge.
- diluvian — pertaining to or caused by a flood or deluge.
- dinosaur — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.