10-letter words containing d, u, s, t
- disuniting — Present participle of disunite.
- disutility — the quality of causing inconvenience, harm, distress, etc.
- dithionous — as in dithionous acid
- diurnalist — a person who writes a diurnal; a journalist
- do justice — present, treat fairly
- domestique — Cycling. a member of a bicycle-racing team who assists the leader, as by setting a pace, preventing breakaways by other teams, or supplying food during a race.
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doughtiest — Superlative form of doughty.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- downspouts — Plural form of downspout.
- drainspout — downspout.
- dress suit — a man's suit for formal evening dress, with tail coat and open-front waistcoat.
- drug store — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- druggist's — a shop where medicines and prescription drugs are sold
- drugs test — a check for the presence of banned substances in someone's blood or urine
- drugstores — Plural form of drugstore.
- drumsticks — Plural form of drumstick.
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- duodenitis — inflammation of the duodenum.
- duotheists — Plural form of duotheist.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- duplicatus — (of a cloud) consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge.
- durometers — Plural form of durometer.
- dust bunny — Slang. a loose, tangled ball of dust, lint, hair, etc., especially as found under a low piece of furniture.
- dust cloud — a large cloud of dust that hangs in the air
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dust devil — a small whirlwind 10–100 feet (3–30 meters) in diameter and from several hundred to 1000 feet (305 meters) high, common in dry regions on hot, calm afternoons and made visible by the dust, debris, and sand it picks up from the ground.
- dust kitty — a dust ball.
- dust mouse — a dust ball.
- dust sheet — A dust sheet is a large cloth which is used to cover objects such as furniture in order to protect them from dust.
- dust storm — a storm of strong winds and dust-filled air over an extensive area during a period of drought over normally arable land (distinguished from sandstorm).
- dust whirl — dust devil.
- dust-bathe — (of a bird) to squat in dusty soil and fluff dust through the plumage: probably performed to combat ectoparasites.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- dustsheets — Plural form of dustsheet.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dutch rush — scouring rush.
- dutchesses — Plural form of dutchess.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- edentulous — lacking teeth; toothless.
- edmundston — a city in NW New Brunswick, in SE Canada, on the upper part of the St. John River.
- educations — Plural form of education.
- elucidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elucidate.
- end result — product created by a process
- eruditions — Plural form of erudition.
- euthanased — Simple past tense and past participle of euthanase.
- euthanised — Simple past tense and past participle of euthanise.