8-letter words containing d, u, r
- 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.
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- de kruif — Paul (Henry)1890-1971; U.S. bacteriologist & writer
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- debruise — to overlay or partly cover with an ordinary
- debugger — a program that is used to find and correct bugs in other programs
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- deburred — to remove burrs from (a piece of machined work); burr.
- decolour — to deprive of colour, as by bleaching
- decorous — Decorous behaviour is very respectable, calm, and polite.
- decorums — Plural form of decorum.
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decurion — a local councillor
- decurved — bent or curved downwards
- deductor — One who deducts tax.
- defrauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defraud.
- dejeuner — the morning meal
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- delirium — If someone is suffering from delirium, they are not able to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way because they are very ill and have a fever.
- delouser — a substance or device which removes lice from something
- delubrum — a shrine or sanctuary
- delusory — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
- deluster — remove the lustre from
- delustre — to remove the lustre from (something)
- demiurge — (in the philosophy of Plato) the creator of the universe
- demurely — characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
- demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
- demurred — to make objection, especially on the grounds of scruples; take exception; object: They wanted to make him the treasurer, but he demurred.
- demurrer — a pleading that admits an opponent's point but denies that it is a relevant or valid argument
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- denature — to change the nature of
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- dentures — Dentures are artificial teeth worn by people who no longer have all their own teeth.
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- desirous — If you are desirous of doing something or desirous of something, you want to do it very much or want it very much.
- destruct — to destroy (one's own missile or rocket) for safety
- desulfur — to free from sulfur; desulfurize.
- detoured — Simple past tense and past participle of detour.
- detraque — insane person
- detritus — Detritus is the small pieces of rubbish that remain after an event has finished or when something has been used.
- detrusor — a muscle in the wall of the bladder
- deturned — Simple past tense and past participle of deturn.
- deuddarn — a type of two-tiered Welsh dresser or cupboard
- deuteric — of, pertaining to, or resulting from the metasomatic changes taking place in igneous rock or magma as it solidifies