9-letter words containing o, d, r, u, s
- disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishumour — to upset or offend
- disposure — disposal; disposition.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- douzepers — the 12 great peers of the realm, seen as the symbolic heirs of Charlemagne's 12 chosen peers
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- drugstore — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- drumrolls — Plural form of drumroll.
- dubersome — (archaic) Doubtful.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- duststorm — Phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- enshrouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enshroud.
- euro-isdn — European Integrated Services Digital Network. An ETSI standard for Integrated Services Digital Network being phased in in March 1994. Euro-ISDN will allow full transparent interworking between all European countries (members of the CEPT). It is available on a commercial basis in most European countries.
- flounders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounder.
- foundress — a woman who establishes something, as an institution or religious order; founder.
- foundries — Plural form of foundry.
- foundrous — founderous.
- gold rush — a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.
- gourmands — Plural form of gourmand.
- grounders — Plural form of grounder.
- groundsel — groundsill.
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- hadrosaur — a bipedal dinosaur of the genus Hadrosaurus, belonging to the ornithopod family Hadrosauridae of the late Cretaceous Period, having broad, flat jaws for scooping up water plants.
- hazardous — full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- herodotus — 484?–425? b.c, Greek historian.
- house red — a red wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- inductors — Plural form of inductor.
- inodorous — not odorous; odorless.
- isandrous — having the stamens similar to each other and equal in number to the petals.
- ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- meandrous — meandering; winding; rambling.
- midcourse — the middle of a course.
- misrouted — a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
- moistured — Supplied with moisture.
- mousebird — coly.
- mousedeer — Alternative form of mouse deer.
- murderous — of the nature of or involving murder: a murderous deed.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- nourished — Simple past tense and past participle of nourish.
- odiferous — Odoriferous; smelly.
- odorously — odoriferous.