9-letter words containing i, d, u
- cuadrilla — a small group, esp a matador's assistants
- cuddlings — Plural form of cuddling.
- cudgeling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- curbsides — Plural form of curbside.
- curlicued — Simple past tense and past participle of curlicue.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- custodier — a custodian
- custodies — Plural form of custody.
- cutinized — Simple past tense and past participle of cutinize.
- cymbidium — a genus, Cymbidium, of subtropical and tropical orchids native to Australia and Asia, having boat-shaped showy flowers
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- dadgummit — (US, euphemistic) goddammit.
- daiquiris — Plural form of daiquiri.
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- daliesque — of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali: giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.
- damasquin — decorate metal
- damasus i — Saint, pope a.d. 366–384.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- danburite — a rare mineral, calcium borosilicate, CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 , occurring in pegmatite in yellow or colorless crystals resembling topaz.
- darius ii — (Ochus) died 404 b.c, king of Persia 424–404 (son of Artaxerxes I).
- daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- day pupil — a pupil at a boarding school who attends lessons during the day but does not sleep at the school
- deauville — a town and resort in NW France: casino. Pop: 3968 (2008)
- debugging — the process of locating and removing faults in computer programs
- debulking — Present participle of debulk.
- debunking — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- deburring — Present participle of deburr.
- deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- decennium — decade (sense 2)
- deciduate — having or characterized by a decidua.
- deciduous — A deciduous tree or bush is one that loses its leaves in the autumn every year.
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- decubitis — (medical) Inflammations cause by a reclined position of the body; it often refers to the complications of bed-ridden patients such as bed sores.
- decubitus — the posture adopted when lying down
- decupling — Present participle of decuple.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- deducible — to derive as a conclusion from something known or assumed; infer: From the evidence the detective deduced that the gardener had done it.
- deducibly — in a deducible or conjecturable manner