12-letter words containing d, u, r, a, s
- cupid's-dart — blue succory.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- custard tart — a small pastry case filled with egg custard
- daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
- daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
- dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
- darmstadtium — a synthetic radioactive element produced in small quantities by cold fusion in a linear accelerator. Symbol: Ds; atomic no: 110
- date squares — a sweet made of a date filling on an oatmeal base with a crumble topping, cut into squares
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- dispauperize — to free (a person) from the state of being a pauper
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- douglas hurd — a third-class university degree
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- dromaeosaurs — Plural form of dromaeosaur.
- droseraceous — of or relating to the genus of plants Drosera
- dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
- dual-purpose — serving two functions.
- dual-release — A dual-release medicine or preparation delivers two drugs simultaneously.
- dust catcher — Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
- dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)