9-letter words containing d, u, s
- outstride — to surpass in striding
- overstudy — excessive study.
- palladous — of or containing bivalent palladium.
- panderous — resembling a pander
- pediculus — a louse
- pendulous — hanging down loosely: pendulous blossoms.
- perradius — any of the main rays of a member of the Radiata group
- persuaded — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- persuader — a person or thing that persuades: The cool lake was a most enticing persuader for those who liked to swim.
- physiqued — having a particular physique
- pilsudski — Józef [yoo-zef] /ˈyu zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1867–1935, Polish marshal and statesman: president 1918–22; premier 1926–28, 1930.
- piłsudski — Józef (ˈjuzɛf). 1867–1935, Polish nationalist leader and statesman; president (1918–21) and premier (1926–28; 1930)
- pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plumdamas — a damson plum or prune
- polydorus — flourished 1st century b.c, Greek sculptor who, with Agesander and Athenodorus, carved the Laocoön group.
- pond scum — any free-floating freshwater alga that forms a green scum on water.
- ponderous — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- port dues — the charge for the use of a port
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.
- poudreuse — a small toilet table of the 18th century.
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- pousowdie — any dish containing a number of different ingredients; in particular, a Scottish stew made from sheep's head
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- pressured — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- producers — a person who produces.
- proudness — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- pseudaxis — sympodium.
- pseudonym — a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def 1).
- pseudopod — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
- published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- pudendous — shameful
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- push-card — punchboard.
- push-down — a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
- put aside — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- quaaludes — Plural form of quaalude.
- quadrants — Plural form of quadrant.
- quadrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadrate.
- quadratus — Any of several roughly square or rectangular muscles, e.g., in the abdomen, thigh, and eye socket.
- quadroons — Plural form of quadroon.
- quadwords — Plural form of quadword.
- quandongs — Plural form of quandong.
- quantised — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quasimodo — Salvatore [sahl-vah-taw-re] /ˌsɑl vɑˈtɔ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–68, Italian poet: Nobel prize 1959.
- quaysides — Plural form of quayside.
- queenside — the side of the board on which the queen is positioned at the start of a game, left for white and right for black.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- quidnuncs — Plural form of quidnunc.
- raynaud's — a disease, mainly affecting women, in which spasms in the blood vessels of the fingers or toes restrict blood flow to the affected part, which becomes pale, numb, and sometimes painful