8-letter words containing d, a, u
- residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- rigaudon — rigadoon.
- rosamund — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- rubboard — a board for scrubbing clothes on
- ruisdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- ruysdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- sadducee — a member of a Palestinian sect, consisting mainly of priests and aristocrats, that flourished from the 1st century b.c. to the 1st century a.d. and differed from the Pharisees chiefly in its literal interpretation of the Bible, rejection of oral laws and traditions, and denial of an afterlife and the coming of the Messiah.
- 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.
- saturday — the seventh day of the week, following Friday.
- 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)
- sauropod — any herbivorous dinosaur of the suborder Sauropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, long neck and tail, and five-toed limbs: the largest known land animal.
- sawdusty — filled with or suggesting sawdust.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- sea duck — any of various diving ducks, as the scaups, goldeneyes, scoters, and eiders, found principally on seas.
- seahound — a dogfish
- shadbush — the serviceberry, Amelanchier canadensis.
- situated — Archaic. located; placed; situated.
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- sluggard — a person who is habitually inactive or lazy.
- soapsuds — suds made with water and soap.
- soundman — a sound recorder in a television crew
- spadeful — the amount that can be dug out with or carried on a spade.
- spaulder — a pauldron, especially one for protecting only a shoulder.
- squadded — a small number of soldiers, commonly 10 privates, a staff sergeant, and a corporal; the smallest military unit.
- squadder — a member of a squad: riot squadder; fire squadder.
- squaddie — soldier
- squadron — a portion of a naval fleet or a detachment of warships; a subdivision of a fleet.
- squaloid — of, relating to, or like a shark, or specifically the dogfish (Squalidae) family of sharks
- squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
- squashed — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
- squatted — to sit in a low or crouching position with the legs drawn up closely beneath or in front of the body; sit on one's haunches or heels.
- squawked — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- 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.
- stardust — (not in technical use) a mass of distant stars appearing as tiny particles of dust.
- statured — of or having a stature of a certain kind (usually used in combination): the short-statured inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula.
- stunkard — sulky
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- subadult — having attained full size and strength; grown up; mature: an adult person, animal, or plant.
- subaudio — (of a sound) low frequency
- subdural — of or relating to the dura mater.
- subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
- subgrade — the prepared earth surface on which a pavement or the ballast of a railroad track is placed or upon which the foundation of a structure is built.
- subnodal — below the level of a node
- subtidal — of or relating to, inhabiting or existing in the region below the level of low tide, that is always underwater