7-letter words containing d, a, u
- caducei — Plural form of caduceus.
- candiru — a tiny parasitic freshwater catfish of the Amazon region
- candour — Candour is the quality of speaking honestly and openly about things.
- cardbus — (hardware) The 32-bit version of the PCMCIA (PC Card) bus.
- cardecu — an old French coin worth a quarter of an écu
- carduus — a thistle, esp the species Carduus benedictus
- caudate — having a tail or a tail-like appendage
- caulked — Simple past tense and past participle of caulk.
- cernuda — Luis (lwiʃ). 1902–63, Spanish poet. His major work is the autobiographical Reality and Desire (1936–64)
- chuddar — a large shawl or veil worn by Muslim or Hindu women that covers them from head to foot
- claudel — Paul (Louis Charles Marie) (pɔl). 1868–1955, French dramatist, poet, and diplomat, whose works testify to his commitment to the Roman Catholic faith. His plays include L'Annonce faite à Marie (1912) and Le Soulier de satin (1919–24)
- claudia — a feminine name
- couvade — a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child
- crapaud — a frog or toad
- crusade — A crusade is a long and determined attempt to achieve something for a cause that you feel strongly about.
- crusado — a former gold or silver coin of Portugal bearing on its reverse the figure of a cross
- cruzado — a former standard monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the cruzeiro
- cudbear — a purple dye prepared from lichens
- cuphead — a hemispherical bolt-head
- curated — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- custard — Custard is a sweet yellow sauce made from milk and eggs or from milk and a powder. It is eaten with fruit and puddings.
- d quark — the quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge, with strangeness, charm, and other quark quantum numbers equal to 0.
- daimoku — (in Nichiren Buddhism) the words nam myoho renge kyo ('devotion to the Lotus Sutra') chanted to the Gohonzon
- damasus — died 1048, pope 1048.
- danbury — city in SW Conn., near Bridgeport: pop. 75,000
- danseur — a male ballet dancer
- dareful — full of daring
- dasyure — any small carnivorous marsupial, such as Dasyurus quoll (eastern dasyure), of the subfamily Dasyurinae, of Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands
- databus — the electrical pathway used to transfer data between components of a computer
- daturic — relating to the plants that belong to the genus Datura
- daubers — Plural form of dauber.
- daubery — the act or an instance of daubing
- daubing — to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
- daugava — Latvian name of Dvina.
- daumier — Honoré (ɔnɔre). 1808–79, French painter and lithographer, noted particularly for his political and social caricatures
- daunder — a walk or amble
- daunted — intimidated
- daunter — One who daunts.
- dauphin — In former times, the king and queen of France's oldest son was called the dauphin.
- dauties — a darling.
- dauting — to caress.
- debauch — to lead into a life of depraved self-indulgence
- decatur — Stephen. 1779–1820, US naval officer, noted for his raid on Tripoli harbour (1804) and his role in the War of 1812
- decidua — the specialized mucous membrane that lines the uterus of some mammals during pregnancy: is shed, with the placenta, at parturition
- decuman — a huge wave
- default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
- defraud — If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
- degauss — to neutralize the magnetic field of (a ship's hull) as a protection against magnetic mines, using equipment producing an opposing magnetic field
- deja vu — Déjà vu is the feeling that you have already experienced the things that are happening to you now.
- delvaux — Paul. 1897–1994, Belgian surrealist painter: his works portray dreamlike figures in mysterious settings