10-letter words containing d, e, u, r
- drunk text — a text message sent by someone who is intoxicated.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- drury lane — a street in London, England, formerly notable for its theaters, named after the house Sir William Drury built there in the reign of Henry VIII.
- du cerceau — Androuet [ahn-droo-e] /ɑ̃ druˈɛ/ (Show IPA), Androuet du Cerceau.
- du maurier — Dame Daphne (Lady Browning) 1907–1989, English novelist.
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- duisenberg — Willem Frederik, known as Wim. 1935–2005, Dutch economist; president of the European Central Bank (1998–2003)
- dukkeripen — fortune-telling
- dumbledore — (dialectal) A bumblebee.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- dumfounder — To dumbfound; to confound.
- dunderfunk — a combination of ship's biscuit and molasses that is baked
- dunderhead — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- dune grass — a stout grass, Elymus arenarius, of Eurasia, used as a binder for shifting sand.
- dup killer — /d[y]oop kill'r/ Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes. See also dup loop.
- dura mater — the tough, fibrous membrane forming the outermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Also called dura. Compare arachnoid (def 6), pia mater.
- durometers — Plural form of durometer.
- durovernum — the Latin name for a city in SE England, in E Kent: starting point for St Augustine's mission to England (597 ad); cathedral where St Thomas à Becket was martyred (1170); seat of the archbishop and primate of England; seat of the University of Kent (1965). Pop: 43 552 (2001)
- durrenmatt — Friedrich [freed-rik;; German free-drikh] /ˈfrid rɪk;; German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1921–90, Swiss dramatist and novelist.
- dusseldorf — a state in W Germany; formerly a part of Rhine province. 13,154 sq. mi. (34,070 sq. km). Capital: Düsseldorf.
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- duumvirate — a coalition of two persons holding the same office, as in ancient Rome.
- dvd burner — A DVD burner is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a DVD.
- earned run — a run yielded by a pitcher in which no error by the pitcher or the pitcher's teammates and no passed ball by the catcher was involved.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- ecuadorean — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- ecuadorian — person from Ecuador
- edulcorant — tending to edulcorate
- edulcorate — to free from acids, salts, or impurities by washing; purify.
- eglandular — having no glands
- elucidator — One who elucidates.
- emu parade — an army exercise devoted to emu-bobbing
- encaptured — Simple past tense and past participle of encapture.
- encouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of encourage.
- encumbered — Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.
- end around — a play in which an offensive end or wide receiver, after running across the field behind the line of scrimmage and taking a handoff from the quarterback, attempts to advance downfield
- end result — product created by a process
- endeavours — Plural form of endeavour.
- endopleura — the internal coating of a seed
- endproduct — Alternative spelling of end product.
- endurances — Plural form of endurance.
- endurement — (obsolete) endurance.
- enduringly — In an enduring manner or fashion; such as to endure.
- enraptured — Simple past tense and past participle of enrapture.
- enshrouded — Simple past tense and past participle of enshroud.