9-letter words containing o, d, s, u
- coldhouse — an unheated greenhouse
- combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
- compounds — Plural form of compound.
- concludes — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- concussed — If someone is concussed, they lose consciousness or feel sick or confused because they have been hit hard on the head.
- conductus — a style of medieval liturgical composition for up to four voices; these were composed in the 12th and 13th centuries
- confounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confound.
- construed — to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
- consulted — to seek advice or information from; ask guidance from: Consult your lawyer before signing the contract.
- convulsed — to shake violently; agitate.
- corduroys — trousers or breeches of corduroy
- counseled — advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
- courtside — the area closest to the court
- credulous — If you describe someone as credulous, you have a low opinion of them because they are too ready to believe what people tell them and are easily deceived.
- crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- cusswords — Plural form of cussword.
- 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.
- d-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- deadhouse — a mortuary
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- deciduous — A deciduous tree or bush is one that loses its leaves in the autumn every year.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- decouples — Separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.
- decourous — Misspelling of decorous.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- defocused — Simple past tense and past participle of defocus.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- delirious — Someone who is delirious is unable to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way, usually because they are very ill and have a fever.
- delousing — Present participle of delouse.
- delusions — Plural form of delusion.
- denounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denounce.
- dentulous — having teeth
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- 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