8-letter words containing d, a, n, u, s
- paysandu — a city in W Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- quadrans — a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the fourth part of an as.
- rosamund — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- sandburr — a variety of wild grass
- sandpump — a pump for wet sand
- sandspur — an American wild grass
- sandusky — a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- saunders — Dame Cicely. 1918–2005, British philanthropist: founded St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 for the care of the terminally ill, upon which the modern hospice movement is modelled. Her books include Living with Dying (1983)
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- seahound — a dogfish
- soundman — a sound recorder in a television crew
- squadron — a portion of a naval fleet or a detachment of warships; a subdivision of a fleet.
- squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
- stand up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
- stand-up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
- standout — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- stunkard — sulky
- subnodal — below the level of a node
- sudanese — a native or inhabitant of Sudan.
- sudation — sweating; sweat
- sulindac — a yellow crystalline substance, C 2 0 H 1 7 FO 3 S, that is used as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory in the treatment of certain rheumatic diseases.
- sunbaked — baked by exposure to the sun, as bricks.
- sunscald — injury to the leaves, bark, or underlying tissues of woody plants due to the combined effects of heat, humidity, and intense sunshine.
- sunshade — something used as a protection from the rays of the sun, as an awning or a parasol.
- sunwards — Also, sunwards. toward the sun.
- thousand — a cardinal number, 10 times 100.
- transude — to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
- unabased — (of a charge) lower on an escutcheon than is usual: a bend abased.
- unabused — not abused or mistreated physically or verbally
- unamused — pleasurably entertained, occupied, or diverted.
- unbasted — (of a garment) not basted; not sewn loosely together
- unbiased — not biased or prejudiced; fair; impartial.
- uncashed — money in the form of coins or banknotes, especially that issued by a government.
- uncasked — removed from a cask; brought out of a cask
- uncaused — not resulting from some antecedent cause.
- unceased — to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.
- undashed — lacking a dash or dashes
- undersay — to state in the form of an answer
- undersea — located, carried on, or used under the surface of the sea: undersea life.
- unerased — to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- unhalsed — not hailed or greeted
- unlapsed — no longer committed to or following the tenets of a particular belief, obligation, position, etc.: a lapsed Catholic.
- unleased — (of a shop, office, property, etc) not leased
- unmasked — to strip a mask or disguise from.
- unparsed — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- unpassed — having completed the act of passing.
- unphased — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- unraised — fashioned or made as a surface design in relief.
- unsaddle — to take the saddle from.