9-letter words containing d, o, c, u
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- denounced — Simple past tense and past participle of denounce.
- denouncer — One who, or that which, denounces.
- denounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denounce.
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- diacodium — (in pre-modern medicine) a herbal remedy made chiefly from poppies, acting as an opiate and thus used to aid sleep
- dicacious — teasing and cheeky in the way one speaks
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- dioecious — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- discolour — Alternative spelling of discolor.
- discounts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discount.
- discoured — Simple past tense and past participle of discoure.
- discoures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discoure.
- discourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- dishclout — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
- dock dues — payments made for the passing of goods through a dock
- docu-soap — a television documentary series in which the lives of the people filmed are presented as entertainment or drama
- docudrama — a fictionalized drama based primarily on actual events.
- documents — Plural form of document.
- docusoaps — Plural form of docusoap.
- dolichuri — poetic term
- door-buck — a sawhorse.
- doronicum — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes.
- douceness — the quality or characteristic of being douce
- douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- doughface — a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the controversies over new territories and slavery before the Civil War.
- downcourt — to or into the opposite end of the court.
- duck pond — a pond for ducks
- duck soup — something that is easy to do or accomplish: Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- dulocracy — rule by slaves.
- dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- duodecimo — Also called twelvemo. a book size of about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 12 leaves or 24 pages. Symbol: 12 mo, 12°.
- dustcloth — a soft, absorbent cloth used for dusting.
- dutch bob — a hair style consisting of bangs cut straight across the forehead and the rest of the hair cut to a uniform length just below the ears.
- dutch hoe — a type of hoe in which the head consists of a two-edged cross-blade attached to two prongs or of a single pressing of this shape
- echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
- ecuadoran — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- educatory — educative.
- eductions — Plural form of eduction.
- eunuchoid — Resembling a eunuch, typically in having reduced or indeterminate sexual characteristics.
- eutectoid — Relating to or denoting an alloy that has a minimum transformation temperature between a solid solution and a simple mixture of metals.
- fructidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the twelfth month of the year, extending from August 18 to September 16.
- glaucodot — a mineral, iron and cobalt sulfarsenide, (Co,Fe)AsS, occurring in grayish-white crystals.