9-letter words containing d, u, s
- insidious — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- insiduous — Misspelling of insidious.
- insuetude — (archaic) The state or quality of being unaccustomed; absence of habit.
- insulated — to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound: to insulate an electric wire with a rubber sheath; to insulate a coat with down.
- intruders — Plural form of intruder.
- intrusted — entrust.
- inuendoes — Plural form of inuendo.
- inundates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inundate.
- invidious — calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful: invidious remarks.
- isandrous — having the stamens similar to each other and equal in number to the petals.
- isodomous — (in Greek history) relating to isodomon
- jacquards — Plural form of jacquard.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- judaistic — an adherent or supporter of Judaism.
- judgeless — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judgeship — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judgments — Plural form of judgment.
- judicious — using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic: judicious use of one's money.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- jusserand — Jean (Adrien Antoine) Jules [zhahn a-dree-ahn ahn-twan zhyl] /ʒɑ̃ a driˈɑ̃ ɑnˈtwan ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, French diplomat, historian, and essayist.
- justified — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- juvenoids — Plural form of juvenoid.
- kid stuff — something appropriate only for children.
- klendusic — resistant to disease
- kunstlied — an art song, especially as distinguished from a folk song.
- kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
- ladislaus — Saint, c1040–95, king of Hungary 1077–95.
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- lassitude — weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor.
- latitudes — Plural form of latitude.
- laundress — a woman whose work is the washing and ironing of clothes, linens, etc.
- laundries — Plural form of laundry.
- liquidise — (British) alternative spelling of liquidize.
- lodicules — Plural form of lodicule.
- lotusland — A place or state concerned solely with, or providing, idle pleasure and luxury.
- lucidness — the quality of being easily understood, completely intelligible, or comprehensible: She makes her argument with pointed logic and exemplary lucidity.
- ludditism — a member of any of various bands of workers in England (1811–16) organized to destroy manufacturing machinery, under the belief that its use diminished employment.
- ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lug-soled — (of a shoe, boot, etc.) having lugs on the sole, as to provide secure footing on rugged terrain.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- luridness — The property of being lurid.
- lustihead — lustiness
- lustihood — lustiness; vigor.
- lustrated — Simple past tense and past participle of lustrate.
- lyndhurst — a township in NE New Jersey.
- madhouses — Plural form of madhouse.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.