10-letter words containing d, r, u
- imprudence — not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.
- impurified — Simple past tense and past participle of impurify.
- incouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of incourage.
- incumbered — encumber.
- incurvated — Simple past tense and past participle of incurvate.
- indecorous — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indentured — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- indentures — Plural form of indenture.
- indextrous — not possessing dexterity
- induration — the act of indurating.
- indurative — the act of indurating.
- industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- industries — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
- industrio- — industrial, industrial and
- infrasound — sound with frequencies below the audible range.
- infuriated — to make furious; enrage.
- inquirendo — an authority granted to someone to conduct an investigation, esp one for the benefit of the British monarch
- instructed — Simple past tense and past participle of instruct.
- interclude — to confine
- interfused — Simple past tense and past participle of interfuse.
- interjudge — Between judges.
- interludes — Plural form of interlude.
- intrasquad — (sports) Within a team.
- introduced — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introducer — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introduces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of introduce.
- involucred — (botany) Having an involucre.
- iridaceous — belonging to the Iridaceae family of plants.
- iron guard — a Romanian fascist party that was extremely nationalistic and anti-Semitic, eliminated after World War II.
- iskenderun — Formerly Alexandretta. a seaport in S Turkey, on the Gulf of Iskenderun.
- jaguarondi — Alternative spelling of jaguarundi.
- jaguarundi — a long-bodied and long-tailed tropical wildcat, Felis yagouaroundi, having a brownish-gray coat and a second color phase of reddish-brown: now reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- janus word — a word that has opposite or nearly opposite meanings, as cleave, meaning ‘to adhere closely’ and ‘to part or split’.
- jeopardous — perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
- jerrybuild — To assemble a project in a hasty, low-quality manner, especially when cheap, low-quality and/or inappropriate materials are used.
- jormungand — Midgard serpent.
- judas tree — a purple-flowered Eurasian tree, Cercis siliquastrum, of the legume family, supposed to be the kind upon which Judas hanged himself.
- judder bar — a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to reduce speeding
- judicatory — of or relating to judgment or the administration of justice; judiciary: judicatory power.
- judicature — the administration of justice, as by judges or courts.
- jute board — a strong, bendable cardboard made from rags and sulfite, used chiefly in the manufacture of shipping cartons.
- keep under — to remain or cause to remain below (a surface)
- kettledrum — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- khidmutgar — a male servant, esp one who serves at table
- kid around — behave jokingly or playfully
- krugerrand — (sometimes lowercase) a one-ounce gold coin of the Republic of South Africa, equal to 25 rand: first issued in 1967.
- kummerbund — a wide sash worn at the waist, especially a horizontally pleated one worn with a tuxedo.
- kurdaitcha — (Australia) An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.
- kurt alder — Kurt [kurt;; German koo rt] /kɜrt;; German kʊərt/ (Show IPA), 1902–58, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1950.