9-letter words containing d, u, r, o
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- draghound — a hound for use in following a hunting drag, specifically bred for speed and stamina rather than subtlety of sense of smell.
- draw upon — use as source or resource
- drawn-out — long-drawn-out.
- dried out — recovered; detoxified
- drive out — To drive out something means to make it disappear or stop operating.
- droitural — pertaining to right of ownership as distinguished from right of possession.
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- drown out — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drug lord — the head of an organization or network involved in illegal drug trafficking.
- drugstore — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- drum into — instill by repetition
- drum roll — fast continuous drumming
- drumrolls — Plural form of drumroll.
- dubersome — (archaic) Doubtful.
- dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- dufferdom — the state of being or the characteristic appearance or behaviour of a duffer (in the sense of a useless and incompetent person)
- duikerbok — duiker.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- dulocracy — rule by slaves.
- dumb dora — a foolishly simple, stupid, or scatterbrained woman.
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dunbarton — former county of W Scotland
- dungeoner — a thing which or a jailer who confines in, or as if in, a dungeon
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- duodenary — duodecimal.
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- durometer — a device for measuring the hardness of materials, especially metals.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- duststorm — Phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.
- echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
- ecuadoran — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- educatory — educative.
- enamoured — Alternative spelling of enamored.
- endeavour — Standard spelling of endeavor.
- enshrouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enshroud.
- erudition — The quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning; scholarship.
- euro-isdn — European Integrated Services Digital Network. An ETSI standard for Integrated Services Digital Network being phased in in March 1994. Euro-ISDN will allow full transparent interworking between all European countries (members of the CEPT). It is available on a commercial basis in most European countries.
- euthyroid — having a thyroid gland that functions normally
- expounder — A person who expounds, explains.
- feudatory — a person who holds lands by feudal tenure; a feudal vassal.
- flavoured — Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring.
- flounders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounder.
- fluorated — (chemistry) Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride.
- forejudge — forjudge.
- fort drum — a military reservation in Watertown in N New York, approximately 10 miles (16 km) E of Lake Ontario.