10-letter words containing d, u, r, i, o
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discoursal — of or relating to discourse
- discoursed — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discourser — One who discourses; a narrator or speaker.
- discourses — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discursion — an instance of discursive writing, speech, etc.; a wandering or logically unconnected statement.
- discursory — of or relating to discourse
- disjunctor — a small body found in the spores of some fungi
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- disruption — forcible separation or division into parts.
- disruptors — Plural form of disruptor.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- dolichurus — a dactylic hexameter characterized by a redundant syllable at the end
- dough bird — the Eskimo curlew.
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- drainspout — downspout.
- druidology — the study of the religion, customs, and practices of the Druids.
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- durational — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- durnovaria — the Latin name for a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001)
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
- ecuadorian — person from Ecuador
- elucidator — One who elucidates.
- eruditions — Plural form of erudition.
- étourderie — thoughtlessness, blundering
- eudiometer — A graduated glass tube in which mixtures of gases can be made to react by an electric spark, used to measure changes in volume of gases during chemical reactions.
- eudiometry — (chemistry, dated) The art or process of determining the constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.
- eurocredit — a loan in which the currency of the loan is different from the national currency of the lending bank
- fairground — Often, fairgrounds. a place where fairs, horse races, etc., are held; in the U.S. usually an area set aside by a city, county, or state for an annual fair and often containing exhibition buildings.
- ferrofluid — A fluid containing a magnetic suspension.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- florideous — belonging to the Florideae family of algae, or having the characteristics thereof
- flourished — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
- fluoboride — (chemistry) Any borofluoride.
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
- fluoridate — to introduce a fluoride into: to fluoridate drinking water.
- fluoridise — fluoridate
- fluoridize — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- formulised — formulate.
- formulized — Simple past tense and past participle of formulize.
- foundering — (of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.
- fructoside — a glycoside that yields fructose upon hydrolysis.
- fruit drop — the premature shedding of fruit from a tree before fully ripe
- furanoside — any glycoside compound in the furanose form
- furosemide — A synthetic compound with a strong diuretic action, used especially in the treatment of edema.
- gourdiness — the state of being gourdy
- graduation — an act of graduating; the state of being graduated.