9-letter words containing c, u, r, d
- dulcamara — a type of vine with orange fruit and purple flowers that is a member of the Solanaceae family
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- dulocracy — rule by slaves.
- dumptruck — a small truck used on building sites, having a load-bearing container at the front that can be tipped up to unload the contents
- duricrust — a hard crust that forms on or in soil in semiarid climates owing to cementation of soil particles. Compare caliche, hardpan (defs 1, 2).
- dust cart — a garbage truck.
- dustcarts — Plural form of dustcart.
- echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
- ecuadoran — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- educatory — educative.
- encrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of encrust.
- endurance — The fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way.
- excluders — Plural form of excluder.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- fractured — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- fructidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the twelfth month of the year, extending from August 18 to September 16.
- gourd cup — a metal cup of the 16th and 17th centuries having a gourd-shaped bowl mounted on a stem.
- grand cru — See under cru.
- gray duck — any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
- hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- hardcourt — relating to a type of tennis court that is made of hard material
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- incrusted — Alternative spelling of encrusted.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- inductors — Plural form of inductor.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- interduce — (construction) An intertie.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introduct — (obsolete) To instruct.
- jacquards — Plural form of jacquard.
- judicator — a person who acts as judge or sits in judgment.
- judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- lord muck — an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic
- ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- midcourse — the middle of a course.
- modular c — A preprocessor-based extension to C allowing modules.
- muckender — (obsolete) A handkerchief.
- muckraked — Simple past tense and past participle of muckrake.
- mud crack — a fracture, part of a desiccation pattern, caused by the drying out and shrinking of silt or clay.
- mudsucker — a goby, Gillichthys mirabilis, of California, used as bait.
- outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
- outscored — Simple past tense and past participle of outscore.
- overcloud — to overspread with or as if with clouds: a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.
- pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.