8-letter words containing a, u
- disabuse — to free (a person) from deception or error.
- disannul — to annul utterly; make void: to disannul a contract.
- dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- disusage — Gradual cessation of use or custom; disuse.
- disvalue — disesteem; disparagement.
- diurnals — Plural form of diurnal.
- dividual — divisible or divided.
- docusoap — a television series that chronicles the purportedly real lives of an interconnected group of people, often in a melodramatic way.
- domatium — a plant cavity inhabited by commensal insects or mites or, occasionally, microorganisms
- don juan — a legendary Spanish nobleman famous for his many seductions and dissolute life.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- douglass — Frederick, 1817–95, U.S. ex-slave, abolitionist, and orator.
- dounreay — the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
- douzaine — a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win.
- downhaul — any of various lines for pulling down a sail or a yard, as for securing in a lowered position when not in use.
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- draw out — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamful — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- drucilla — a female given name.
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- drumhead — the membrane stretched upon a drum.
- drunkard — a person who is habitually or frequently drunk.
- drusilla — a female given name.
- du barry — Comtesse (Marie Jeanne Bécu) 1746–93, mistress of Louis XV.
- du sable — Jean Baptiste Pointe [zhahn ba-teest pwant] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist pwɛ̃t/ (Show IPA), 1745?–1818, U.S. pioneer trader, born in Haiti: early settler of Chicago.
- dual-607 — (language) An early system on the IBM 701.
- dual-use — dual-purpose; specif., designating or of machinery, technology, etc. having both civilian and military applications
- dualisms — Plural form of dualism.
- duathlon — An athletic contest consisting of running and cycling.
- dubitate — to doubt or be uncertain
- dubplate — An acetate recording disk, typically one featuring a dub version of a reggae song that is not yet on general release.
- ducatoon — a former silver coin of the Netherlands, used through the 17th and 18th centuries: equal to three gulden.
- duckface — Informal. a facial expression in which the lips are pressed together and pushed forward, especially in a photograph.
- ducktail — DA.
- duckwalk — Walk with the body in a squatting posture.
- dudevant — Madame Amandine Lucile Aurore [French a-mahn-deen ly-seel oh-rawr] /French a mɑ̃ˈdin lüˈsil oʊˈrɔr/ (Show IPA), Sand, George.
- due date — deadline for payment
- dulciana — an organ stop having metal pipes and giving thin, incisive, somewhat stringlike tones.
- dulcinea — a ladylove; sweetheart.
- dullards — Plural form of dullard.
- dumb-ass — a thoroughly stupid person; blockhead.
- dumbhead — blockhead.
- dumpcart — a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.