9-letter words containing d, u, s
- denturism — the practice by denturists of making artificial dentures and fitting them to patients.
- denturist — a person who makes dentures
- denudates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denudate.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- desargues — Gérard [zhey-rar] /ʒeɪˈrar/ (Show IPA), 1593–1662, French mathematician.
- deschutes — river in central and N Oreg., flowing from the Cascade Range north into the Columbia River: c. 250 mi (402 km)
- deshuffle — (signal processing) To restore shuffled data to its original ordered state.
- designful — full of design or intention
- desireful — Filled with desire; eager.
- deskbound — doing sedentary work; working exclusively at a desk.
- desmodium — a genus of flowering plant, with usually unobtrusive flowers; many members are considered weeds, such as the beggarweed (Desmodium tortuosum)
- desoeuvre — with nothing to do
- despumate — to clarify or purify (a liquid) by skimming a scum from its surface
- destitute — Someone who is destitute has no money or possessions.
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- destructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destruct.
- desuetude — the condition of not being in use or practice; disuse
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- detumesce — (intransitive, of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
- deusdedit — Saint, died a.d. 618, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 615–618.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- deutscher — Isaac, 1907–1967, English journalist and author, born in Poland.
- deviously — departing from the most direct way; circuitous; indirect: a devious course.
- devoutest — Superlative form of devout.
- dexterous — Someone who is dexterous is very skilful and clever with their hands.
- dialogues — Plural form of dialogue.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diapauses — Plural form of diapause.
- diazeuxis — the separation of two tetrachords by the interval of a tone
- dicacious — teasing and cheeky in the way one speaks
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort
- diclinous — (of flowering plants) bearing unisexual flowers
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- diffusate — (in dialysis) the solution or the crystalline material that passes into it through the semipermeable membrane; dialyzate.
- diffusely — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- diffusers — Plural form of diffuser.
- diffusing — Present participle of diffuse.
- diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- diffusive — tending to diffuse; characterized by diffusion.
- dilutions — Plural form of dilution.
- dinosaurs — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dioecious — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- dioestrus — diestrus.
- dionysius — ("the Elder") 431?–367 b.c, Greek soldier: tyrant of Syracuse 405–367.
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.
- disabused — Simple past tense and past participle of disabuse.
- disabuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disabuse.