10-letter words containing d, r, u
- racked out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
- radio tube — a vacuum tube used in a radio receiving set.
- radiopaque — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- radius rod — (in a feathering paddle wheel) any of the rods, meeting in a hub mounted eccentrically with the paddle-wheel shaft, for feathering the paddles while in the water.
- raduliform — rasp-like
- rain cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
- rain-cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
- re-adjourn — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- re-discuss — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- re-educate — to educate again, as for new purposes.
- re-plumbed — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
- readjusted — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
- rear guard — a military detachment to protect the rear of a main force or body
- rebuilding — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- recidivous — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- recomputed — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- recrudesce — to break out afresh, as a sore, a disease, or anything else that has been quiescent.
- red duster — a red ensign having the Union Jack as a canton, flown by most British merchant ships.
- red fescue — a grass, Festuca rubra, of the meadows of the North Temperate Zone, having green, reddish, or bluish-green flower clusters.
- red grouse — a grouse, Lagopus lagopus scoticus, of the British Isles, a subspecies of willow ptarmigan lacking white winter plumage.
- red guards — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- red liquor — mordant rouge.
- red mullet — a goatfish or surmullet.
- red spruce — a spruce, Picea rubens, of eastern North America, having reddish-brown bark and cones and yielding a light, soft wood used for pulp, in the construction of boxes, etc.
- red square — a large, open square in central Moscow, adjacent to the Kremlin: site of military parades, Lenin's tomb, and St. Basil's cathedral.
- red squill — a variety of squill whose bulbs are red, used chiefly as a rat poison.
- red-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the latter part of the 6th and the 5th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by figurative representations in red against a black-slip background, details painted in the design, and the introduction of three-dimensional illusion in the rendering of form and space.
- redcurrant — any of various currant shrubs of the genus Ribes, bearing an edible, red fruit.
- redisburse — to refund or reimburse
- rediscount — to discount again.
- redocument — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- redruthite — an important dark-grey or black copper ore mineral which is a sulphide
- redundance — the state of being redundant.
- redundancy — the state of being redundant.
- referendum — the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body, head of state, etc., to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection. Compare initiative (def 4a).
- refundable — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- refundment — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- reguardant — (of a beast) looking backward: a stag regardant.
- rejoindure — the act of joining again; a reunion
- remodulate — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- rendezvous — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- reoccurred — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- reproducer — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- reschedule — to schedule for another or later time: to reschedule a baseball game because of rain.
- rescue dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers
- residually — in a residual manner.
- resin duct — a tube or duct in a woody stem or a leaf, especially in conifers, lined with glandular epithelium that secretes resins.