9-letter words containing d, e, r, u
- couriered — Simple past tense and past participle of courier.
- courtside — the area closest to the court
- credendum — an article of faith
- credulity — Credulity is a willingness to believe that something is real or true.
- credulous — If you describe someone as credulous, you have a low opinion of them because they are too ready to believe what people tell them and are easily deceived.
- critiqued — Simple past tense and past participle of critique.
- croqueted — Simple past tense and past participle of croquet.
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crucified — Simple past tense and past participle of crucify.
- crude oil — Crude oil is oil in its natural state before it has been processed or refined.
- crudeness — in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
- crudities — the state or quality of being crude.
- crusaders — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- cullender — colander
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- curandera — (in Hispanic America) a female healer or shaman
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- curbsides — Plural form of curbside.
- curlicued — Simple past tense and past participle of curlicue.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
- curvetted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- custodier — a custodian
- cybercrud — (jargon) /si:'ber-kruhd/ 1. (Coined by Ted Nelson) Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in e-mail. First there were the "Received" headers that show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This stuff all has a purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- danburite — a rare mineral, calcium borosilicate, CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 , occurring in pegmatite in yellow or colorless crystals resembling topaz.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- de la rue — Warren, 1815–89, English astronomer and inventor.
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debenture — A debenture is a type of savings bond which offers a fixed rate of interest over a long period. Debentures are usually issued by a company or a government agency.
- debuggers — Plural form of debugger.
- debunkers — Plural form of debunker.
- deburring — Present participle of deburr.
- dechunker — chunker
- declutter — to simplify or get rid of mess, disorder, complications, etc, from
- decocture — the essence or liquor resulting from decoction
- decoupler — a person or device that disconnects parts that are joined
- decourous — Misspelling of decorous.
- deculture — to deculturate.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decurrent — extending down the stem, esp (of a leaf) having the base of the blade extending down the stem as two wings