8-letter words containing d, u, r, o
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- draw out — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- drop out — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropouts — Plural form of dropout.
- droughts — Plural form of drought.
- droughty — dry.
- druglord — the head of an organization or network involved in illegal drug trafficking.
- drum out — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- drummock — drammock.
- drummond — Henry, 1851–97, Scottish clergyman and writer.
- drumroll — a roll on a drum.
- drymouth — a condition of insufficient saliva, known medically as xerostomia
- ductwork — a system of ducts used for a particular purpose, as in a ventilation or heating system.
- dukhobor — Doukhobor.
- duntroon — a suburb of Canberra: seat of the Royal Military College of Australia
- duration — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- duressor — a person who subjects another to duress.
- durocher — Leo Ernest ("The Lip") 1905–91, U.S. baseball player and manager.
- educator — a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.
- enshroud — Envelop completely and hide from view.
- eurobond — Eurobonds are bonds which are issued in a particular European currency and sold to people from a country with a different currency.
- eurocard — A range of standard circuit board sizes. Normal double Eurocard = 233.4 x 160 mm Extended double Eurocard = 233.4 x 220 mm Super extended double Eurocard = 233.4 x 250 mm Hyper extended double Eurocard = 233.4 x 280 mm
- euroland — also Eurozone
- exordium — The beginning or introductory part, especially of a discourse or treatise.
- favoured — Treated or regarded with partiality.
- flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- fluoride — a salt of hydrofluoric acid consisting of two elements, one of which is fluorine, as sodium fluoride, NaF.
- fluoroid — (crystallography) A tetrahexahedron.
- forjudge — to exclude, expel, dispossess, or deprive by a judgment.
- fortuned — Simple past tense and past participle of fortune.
- foulards — Plural form of foulard.
- founders — Plural form of founder.
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- fourfold — comprising four parts or members.
- froideur — an attitude of haughty aloofness; cold superiority.
- frondeur — a rebel; rioter.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- fuel rod — nuclear fuel contained in a long thin-walled tube, an array of such tubes forming the core of a nuclear reactor.
- funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
- furrowed — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- fuzzword — A term that is deliberately vague or euphemistic in meaning.
- go round — go-around (defs 2, 3).
- go under — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go-round — go-around (defs 2, 3).
- goldrush — Alternative spelling of gold rush.
- gourmand — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- grouched — Simple past tense and past participle of grouch.
- grounded — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- grounder — ground ball.