9-letter words containing d, a, e, l, u
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- club deal — a takeover bid in which several private-equity companies form a syndicate to acquire a target company
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- copulated — Simple past tense and past participle of copulate.
- cuddlable — Able to be cuddled.
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- 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.
- dauntless — A dauntless person is brave and confident and not easily frightened.
- de gaulle — Charles (André Joseph Marie) (ʃarl). 1890–1970, French general and statesman. During World War II, he refused to accept Pétain's armistice with Germany and founded the Free French movement in England (1940). He was head of the provisional governments (1944–46) and, as first president of the Fifth Republic (1959–69), he restored political and economic stability to France
- de la rue — Warren, 1815–89, English astronomer and inventor.
- deauville — a town and resort in NW France: casino. Pop: 3968 (2008)
- debateful — quarrelsome
- decalogue — Ten Commandments
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- defaulted — failure to act; inaction or neglect: They lost their best client by sheer default.
- defaulter — A defaulter is someone who does not do something that they are legally supposed to do, such as make a payment at a particular time, or appear in a court of law.
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- deludable — Capable of being deluded; gullible.
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- deputable — able to be deputed
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- devaluate — (transitive) To reduce in value.
- devaluing — to deprive of value; reduce the value of.
- dialogued — Simple past tense and past participle of dialogue.
- dialogues — Plural form of dialogue.
- dilutable — capable of being diluted
- disulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- disvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of disvalue.
- divulgate — to make publicly known; publish.
- dolgellau — a market town and tourist centre in NW Wales, in Gwynedd. Pop: 2407 (2001)
- double ax — an ax with a double-edged blade, frequently depicted in prehistoric decorative designs of the eastern Mediterranean region, especially in Minoan religious sites.
- doubleday — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- doubtable — (uncommon) Capable of being doubted; doubtful; dubious; dubitable. See usage notes below.
- drawerful — an amount sufficient to fill a drawer: a drawerful of socks.
- dreadfull — Archaic spelling of dreadful.
- du bellay — Joachim [French zhaw-a-keem] /French ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), Bellay, Joachim du.
- dualities — Plural form of duality.
- dubitable — open to doubt; doubtful; uncertain.
- dudelsack — doodlesack.
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- dunstable — John, c1390–1453, English composer.
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- elmaguide — (language) The metalanguage used for interpretation of user actions in the ELMA compiler writer developed at Tallinn Poly Institute in 1978.
- elucidate — Make (something) clear; explain.