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8-letter words containing d, r, u

  • cloudier — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
  • coendure — to endure together
  • colluder — to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent.
  • coloured — Something that is coloured a particular colour is that colour.
  • colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
  • conducer — to lead or contribute to a result (usually followed by to or toward): qualities that conduce to success.
  • conjured — Simple past tense and past participle of conjure.
  • corduroy — Corduroy is thick cotton cloth with parallel raised lines on the outside.
  • cornuted — having horns
  • corundum — a white, grey, blue, green, red, yellow, or brown mineral, found in metamorphosed shales and limestones, in veins, and in some igneous rocks. It is used as an abrasive and as gemstone; the red variety is ruby, the blue is sapphire. Composition: aluminium oxide. Formula: Al2O3. Crystal structure: hexagonal (rhombohedral)
  • couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
  • courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
  • cournand — André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization
  • crouched — to stoop or bend low.
  • croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
  • crudites — Crudités are pieces of raw vegetable, often served before a meal.
  • crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
  • cruelled — Simple past tense and past participle of cruel.
  • crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
  • crumpled — creased
  • crunched — Simple past tense and past participle of crunch.
  • crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
  • crusaded — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
  • crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
  • crusades — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
  • crutched — Simple past tense and past participle of crutch.
  • cuddlier — suitable for or inviting cuddling: a cuddly teddy bear.
  • cudgeler — One who beats with a cudgel.
  • cudgerie — a large tropical rutaceous tree, Flindersia schottina, having light-coloured wood
  • cudworth — Ralph. 1617–88, English philosopher and theologian. His works include True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) and A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
  • cue card — a card, unseen by the audience, carrying dialogue, lyrics, etc. as an aid to a television performer
  • cultured — If you describe someone as cultured, you mean that they have good manners, are well educated, and know a lot about the arts.
  • cumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of cumber.
  • cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
  • curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
  • curdling — Present participle of curdle.
  • curetted — to scrape with a curette.
  • cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
  • cursored — Simple past tense and past participle of cursor.
  • curtsied — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
  • curveted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
  • cuspidor — spittoon
  • cussword — a swearword
  • custardy — resembling custard
  • cut drop — a drop scene cut to reveal part of the upstage area.
  • daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
  • daiquiri — A daiquiri is a drink made with rum, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and ice.
  • damanhur — a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta. Pop: 229 000 (2005 est)
  • dandruff — Dandruff is small white pieces of dead skin in someone's hair, or fallen from someone's hair.
  • dardanus — the son of Zeus and Electra who founded the royal house of Troy
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