9-letter words containing d, a, n, u, s
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- ombudsman — a government official who hears and investigates complaints by private citizens against other officials or government agencies.
- outstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstand.
- panderous — resembling a pander
- quadrants — Plural form of quadrant.
- quadroons — Plural form of quadroon.
- quandongs — Plural form of quandong.
- quantised — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- raynaud's — a disease, mainly affecting women, in which spasms in the blood vessels of the fingers or toes restrict blood flow to the affected part, which becomes pale, numb, and sometimes painful
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- roundsman — a person who makes rounds, as of inspection.
- sand dune — hill of sand created by wind
- sandhurst — a village in S England, near Reading, W of London: military college.
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- saturniid — any of several large, brightly colored moths of the family Saturniidae, comprising the giant silkworm moths.
- sauntered — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
- schaudinn — Fritz [frits] /frɪts/ (Show IPA), 1871–1906, German zoologist.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- sgian-dhu — a dirk carried in the stocking by Highlanders
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
- shrubland — land covered by shrubs
- skean dhu — a small knife tucked into or worn against the top of a stocking in the full dress of Highland Scottish males.
- skean-dhu — a small knife tucked into or worn against the top of a stocking in the full dress of Highland Scottish males.
- slam dunk — basketball: score from above rim
- slam-dunk — Basketball. to dunk (the ball) with great force.
- sound law — phonetic law.
- sound man — a technician who produces sound effects.
- soundcard — A soundcard is a piece of equipment which can be put into a computer so that the computer can produce music or other sounds.
- southland — a southern area.
- squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
- squadsman — a member of a squad or team.
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- stand out — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- stand-out — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- stavudine — an antiviral drug used to treat HIV infections
- stralsund — a seaport in NE Germany: a member of the medieval Hanseatic League; besieged by Wallenstein 1628.
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- subwarden — an assistant to a warden, a deputy or subordinate warden
- sudaminal — pertaining to a sudamen or sudamina; comprising sudamina
- sudermann — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1857–1928, German dramatist and novelist.
- sun dance — a religious ceremony associated with the sun, practiced by North American Indians of the Plains, consisting of dancing attended with various symbolic rites and commonly including self-torture.
- sun-baked — Sun-baked land or earth has been made hard and dry by the sun shining on it.
- sundanese — a member of a people of western Java.
- sundsvall — a seaport in E Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- sunshades — something used as a protection from the rays of the sun, as an awning or a parasol.
- suntanned — having a suntan: suntanned strollers on the boardwalk.
- sustained — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- the sudan — a region stretching across Africa south of the Sahara and north of the tropical zone: inhabited chiefly by Negroid tribes rather than Arabs
- thousands — a cardinal number, 10 times 100.