10-letter words containing d, s, u
- quasi-good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- quasiorder — (set theory) A preorder.
- queensland — a state in NE Australia. 670,500 sq. mi. (1,736,595 sq. km). Capital: Brisbane.
- quesadilla — a tortilla folded over a filling of shredded cheese, onions, and chilies and broiled or fried.
- questioned — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quiddities — Plural form of quiddity.
- quo vadis? — where are you going?
- quodlibets — Plural form of quodlibet.
- quotidians — Plural form of quotidian.
- radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
- 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.
- 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.
- readjusted — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
- recidivous — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- 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 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.
- redisburse — to refund or reimburse
- rediscount — to discount again.
- rendezvous — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- 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.
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- restituted — to make restitution.
- resurfaced — to give a new surface to.
- ridiculous — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
- riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
- ritualised — to practice ritualism.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- routinised — to develop into a regular procedure.
- rudderfish — any of various fishes having the habit of following behind ships, as a pilot fish.
- rudderless — Nautical. a vertical blade at the stern of a vessel that can be turned horizontally to change the vessel's direction when in motion.
- rudderpost — the vertical member of a stern frame on which the rudder is hung; a sternpost.
- ruggedised — to construct (electronic equipment, cameras, and other delicate instruments) so as to be resistant to shock, vibration, etc.
- ruggedness — having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface: rugged ground.
- run scared — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- rush order — an order for goods required urgently
- saint jude — the author of this, stated to be the brother of James (Jude 1) and almost certainly identical with Thaddaeus (Matthew 10:2–4). Feast day: Oct 28 or June 19
- salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
- sanctitude — holiness; saintliness; sanctity.
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides