6-letter words containing d, r, u
- deturn — (obsolete) To turn away; to divert.
- deucer — Cards. a card having two pips; a two, or two-spot.
- deurne — a town in N Belgium, a suburb of E Antwerp: site of Antwerp airport. Pop: 68 308 (2002 est)
- devour — If a person or animal devours something, they eat it quickly and eagerly.
- dharuk — an Australian aboriginal language, now extinct, spoken in the area of the first European settlement at Port Jackson.
- dhurna — (in India) the practice of exacting justice or compliance with a just demand by sitting and fasting at the doorstep of an offender until death or until the demand is granted.
- dirdum — blame.
- diseur — a male professional entertainer who performs monologues.
- dispur — a state in NE India. 30,285 sq. mi. (78,438 sq. km). Capital: Dispur.
- diuron — a white crystalline substance, C 9 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O, used as a weed-killer.
- dolour — sorrow; grief.
- donour — Obsolete form of donor.
- dorbug — a name given to various types of beetle
- dorsum — the back, as of the body.
- doucer — sedate; modest; quiet.
- dourah — a type of grain sorghum with slender stalks, cultivated in Asia and Africa and introduced into the U.S.
- dourly — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- douser — a person or thing that douses.
- douter — an implement for snuffing out candles, consisting either of a scissorlike device with two broad flat blades or of a cone at the end of a handle.
- dracut — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- driuen — Obsolete spelling of driven.
- drogue — a bucket or canvas bag used as a sea anchor.
- drouth — a period of dry weather, especially a long one that is injurious to crops.
- drudge — a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
- druggy — druggie.
- druids — Plural form of druid.
- drumly — troubled; gloomy.
- drunke — Obsolete spelling of drunk.
- drunks — Plural form of drunk.
- drupal — (botany) drupaceous.
- drupes — Plural form of drupe.
- drusen — Plural form of druse.
- drusus — Nero Claudius ("Germanicus") 38–9 b.c, Roman general.
- dry up — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
- dryout — the process or an instance of drying out: applying compost to the garden soil to retard dryout.
- du pre — Jacqueline [zhak-leen] /ʒækˈlin/ (Show IPA), 1945–87, English cellist.
- dualer — of, relating to, or noting two.
- duarte — a city in SW California.
- dubber — to furnish (a film or tape) with a new sound track, as one recorded in the language of the country of import.
- ducker — a person or thing that ducks.
- ductor — the roller that conveys ink in a press from the ink reservoir to the distributor.
- dudder — to tremble or shudder
- dueler — A person who fights a duel.
- duffer — Informal. a plodding, clumsy, incompetent person. a person inept or inexperienced at a specific sport, as golf.
- duiker — any of several small African antelopes of the Cephalophus, Sylvicapra, and related genera, the males and often the females having short, spikelike horns: some are endangered.
- dukery — the domain of a duke
- duller — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- dumber — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- dumper — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
- dunbar — Paul Laurence, 1872–1906, U.S. poet.