8-letter words containing d, u, a
- clubland — A city's clubland is the area that contains all the best nightclubs.
- coaldust — fine particles of coal
- commaund — Obsolete form of command.
- coumadin — Synonym of warfarin.
- coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
- 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
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- 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.
- 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.
- cuboidal — Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
- cue card — a card, unseen by the audience, carrying dialogue, lyrics, etc. as an aid to a television performer
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- 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.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- cuspidal — of, like, or having a cusp; cuspidate.
- custardy — resembling custard
- custodia — (rare) pyx (container for the host).
- cut dead — to snub completely
- dactylus — the tip of a cephalopod's tentacular club
- daedalus — an Athenian architect and inventor who built the labyrinth for Minos on Crete and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee the island
- daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
- daibutsu — a large representation of the Buddha.
- 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)
- damascus — the capital of Syria, in the southwest: reputedly the oldest city in the world, having been inhabited continuously since before 2000 bc. Pop: 2 317 000 (2005 est)
- dan buoy — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
- dandruff — Dandruff is small white pieces of dead skin in someone's hair, or fallen from someone's hair.
- danseuse — a female ballet dancer
- danubian — of or relating to the river Danube
- dardanus — the son of Zeus and Electra who founded the royal house of Troy
- darius i — known as Darius the Great, surname Hystaspis. ?550–486 bc, king of Persia (521–486), who extended the Persian empire and crushed the revolt of the Ionian city states (500). He led two expeditions against Greece but was defeated at Marathon (490)
- dartrous — of or pertaining to dartre
- dasyures — Plural form of dasyure.
- dasyurid — Any carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
- data bus — (architecture) The bus (connections between and within the CPU, memory, and peripherals) used to carry data. Other connections are the address bus and control signals. The width and clock rate of the data bus determine its data rate (the number of bytes per second it can carry), which is one of the main factors determining the processing power of a computer. Most current processor designs use a 32-bit bus, meaning that 32 bits of data can be transferred at once. Some processors have an internal data bus which is wider than their external bus in order to make external connections cheaper while retaining some of the benefits in processing power of a wider bus. See also data path.
- datacube — Alternative spelling of data cube.
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- daubigny — Charles François (ʃarl frɑ̃swa). 1817–78, French landscape painter associated with the Barbizon School
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- daunting — Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- dauphine — the wife of a dauphin
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- deal out — If someone deals out a punishment or harmful action, they punish or harm someone.